Brief curriculum vitae Name: Gustavo Ariel SLAFER LAGO Place and date of birth: Buenos Aires, 13 October 1960 Nationalities: Spanish and Argentine Institutional address: Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Av. Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, SPAIN Phone: (+34) 973 003 659 Fax: (+34) 973 238 264 E-mail: [email protected] Web address: http://www.etsea.udl.es/dept/pvcf/cat/personal/slafer.html; http://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificForm.aspx?key=293 Academic degrees: Ing. Agr., M. Sc., Ph. D. (Univ. Melbourne) Current position: Research Professor of ICREA (Catalonian Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) at, and Associate Professor in, the Department of Crop and Forest Sciences of the University of Lleida; Spain ; and Special Professor, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Former positions: Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Principal Scvientist at the National Counciel of Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET). Both until 2003 Teaching activity: Crop physiology; Applications of biotechnology in crop improvement, Publishing scientific papers and managing scientific information Scientific activity: Main area: Crop Physiology applied to both breeding and management List some research projects (in the last 6 years): • Coordinator of 2 Multinational projects (EC, FONTAGRO) and 1 Multinational Network (CYTED) • IP of a group in another EC project. • IP of 2 projects of the “Plan Nacional” Ministry of Science-Spain List supervision work: I was supervisor of 7 PhD and 4 MSc (by thesis) students (already finished). Associate Editor for ISI journals: Euphytica (Springer-Verlag, Germany) Editorial Board Member for ISI journals: • Field Crops Research, Elsevier, The Netherlands • European Journal of Agronomy, European Society of Agronomy (ESA) and Elsevier, The Netherlands Referee for ISI journals: I am frequently Referee of various international journals, beyond those in which I am in the EBs, during the last year these journals included Agricultural Water Management, Annals of Botany, Journal of Experimental Botany, Journal of Agricultural Science Number of ISI papers: Until Dec 2009 I have edited or co-edited 5 scientific books, by two different publishers in New York (USA), and published 140 international articles (29 books chapters and 120 papers in SCI-indexed journals). My H-index at Dic 2009 was 26 considering only papers quoted or 29 considering chapters quoted as well. Participation in international meetings: I have authored more than 80 submissions to International Conferences; 21 of them were presented by invitation of the conference organisation. I delivered invited presentations in International Conferences-Meetings or in Overseas Research Centres, including USA; 1 Australia; CIMMYT, The Netherlands; Canada; Uruguay; Hungary; Brazil; UK; Chile; Finland, Mexico; and China Technical activity: Trying to develop crop physiological tools to provide crop breeders and crop managers with more mechanistic information to improve (genetically and agronomically) production more efficiently Most significant scientific publications: SLAFER, G.A. & RAWSON, H.M., (1994). Sensitivity of wheat phasic development to major environmental factors: a re-examination of some assumptions made by physiologists and modellers. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 21:393-426 Cited 144 times ARAUS, J.L., SLAFER, G.A., REYNOLDS, M.P. & ROYO, C. (2002). Plant breeding and water relations in C3 cereals: what should we breed for? Annals of Botany, 89:925-940 Cited 133 times BORRAS, L., SLAFER, G.A. & OTEGUI, M.E. (2004). Seed dry weight response to source-sink manipulations in wheat, maize and soybean. A quantitative reappraisal. Field Crops Research, 86:131-146 Cited 94 times SLAFER, G.A. & SAVIN, R., (1994). Sink-source relationships and grain mass at different positions within the spike in wheat. Field Crops Research, 37:39-49 Cited 69 times SLAFER, G.A. & ANDRADE, F.H., (1993). Physiological attributes related to the generation of grain yield in bread wheat cultivars released at different eras. Field Crops Research, 31:351-367 Cited 68 times 2