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Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada is a Mexican scientist born in Monterrey Mexico in 1965. He is a Professor at National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (Langebio), Cinvestav. Trained as an Agronomist, he graduated with honors at the University of Louvain in Belgium (1990), and received his Ph.D in Plant Genetics from Texas A&M University (1995) in the USA before conducting postdoctoral research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1996-2000), in Long Island New York. He has made pioneering discoveries in the field of reproductive development and seed formation, with particular emphasis in the understanding of apomixis, a clonal method of reproduction through seeds. He is an International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the USA and was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the iPlant Collaborative, an initiative funded by the US National Science Foundation to create the first Cyber-Infrastructure in Plant Sciences. He has been awarded the National Young Research Award of the Mexican Academy of Science (2004), twice the Pioneer Hi-Bred International Award (1995 and 1996), and the AgroBio Prize in Biotechnological Research (2007). He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2006.