Dr. Peris has a Ph.D. in Biotechnology (University of Valencia, 2012). David Peris has expertise in comparative genomics, fungal evolution, highthroughput microbial phenotyping, bioinformatics and biotechnological applications. Since 2021, he is Principal Investigator at University of Oslo (Norway) and since 2022 Distinguished Researcher at IATA-CSIC. Dr. Peris is studying mechanisms of speciation and adaptation in mushroom-like organisms and yeasts. His group implements bioinformatics tools to study evolution and adaptation of fungi, develops new molecular methods for generating new strains with applications in the production of healthy, safe and sustainable food products. He is actually supervisor of 2 PhDs, 1 postdoc and 2 graduate students. He has developed his research in four different countries (Spain, UK, USA and Norway). Dr. Peris has been lecturer of basic genetics, evolutionary biology, mycology and synthetic biology. He has mentored undergraduates, PhD students, and postdocs. He was president of the regional Section of Spanish Scientists in USA (ECUSA) - Midwest from 2015 to 2017, developing mentoring and outreach programs. Dr. Peris is co-author of 28 (2 under review) papers in indexed international journals (2 of them were journal covers and 1 was top 1% cited in 2018), 3 reviews (1 top cited in 2018/19), 2 national journals and he was involved in 20 research projects. He is member of 2 journal editorial boards, he has been project reviewer (one country) and journal reviewer of 20 international journals. He has participated in different international conferences (3 as invited speaker), contributing with posters and talks. He has also been awarded with 4 research grants, 2 small company grants, 2 computational grants, 6 travel grants, 1 professional development award, 1 oral talk prize, 1 poster prize, and he has displayed 3 intellectual disclosure reports and 2 patents. Publications in google scholar: http://goo.gl/jfahYH. Papers reviewed in publons: https://goo.gl/K5BtIz