Magdalena Arasimowicz-Jelonek

Magdalena Arasimowicz-Jelonek is a Full Professor (since 2020) at the Department of Plant Ecophysiology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She obtained her Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences (Plant Physiology) in 2006 and has completed postdoctoral research fellowships at Masaryk University (Czech Republic), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). The scope of her scientific interests includes identification of plant resistance and tolerance mechanisms to environmental stresses, i.e., pathogen attack, drought stress, light deficiency, hypoxia, and environmental pollution with heavy metals. In detail, the research focuses primarily on identifying and explaining the signaling function of nitric oxide (NO) and its derivatives in order to induce effective defense strategies in crop plants growing under conditions of unfavorable climate change, conducive to improving their productivity. Her research led, among others, to the discovery of endogenous nitroxyl (HNO) in living organisms, a molecule related to NO and involved in plant adaptation to hypoxia.