Dr Libert Brice TONFACK is a Senior Lecturer (currently applying for Associate Professor of the Cameroonian Universities) in the Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Science at the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon, where he has been since December 2011. From January 2014 to November 2015, he was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Forest Molecular Genetics (FMG) of the Forest and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute in the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He received a B.S. in Plant Biology from the University of Dschang in 2002, and a MSc. in Plant Biotechnologies at the University of Yaounde 1 in 2004. He has completed his Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnologies from the University of Yaounde 1, in 2011. From 2006 to 2008, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the “Laboratoire de Génomique et Biotechnologie des Fruits” (UMR991-INRA/INP-ENSAT) of Toulouse, France. His research activities allowed him to approach many complementary topics and gave him the advantage to acquire and strengthen a large experience on a varied range of techniques and concepts in active domains for plant improvement. In the domain of soil fertility, he has explored the implications of organic and calculated mineral fertilizers as well as soil conservation approaches on improvement of productivity and quality of many crops (moringa, tomato, cucumber, rice) under heavily poor soils in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the domain of functional genomics, he investigated the potential role of uncharacterized SDRs in fruit’ aroma biosynthesis using reverse genetic (RNAi strategy) and enzymatic approaches. His interest to SDRs gave him to conduct a global inventory and a functional classification of plant SDRs. In the domain of cell and tissue culture, he has contributed in assessing pollen viability and germination related to better conservation of genetic patrimony (oil palm, Cola species, watermelon, okra, vernonia) and the potential of using embryo rescue (oil palm) or cotyledonary callogenesis (grapefruit) for seedling productions. In regulatory genetics, he has worked on the molecular engineering of woody plants for biomass and energy production, by contributing in building custom plasmids for highly tissue specific wood transformation using promoter regions from herbaceous (Arabidopsis) and woody (Eucalyptus, Poplar) plants. He contributed in analyzing the role of Eucalyptus NAC transcription factors in activating Arabidopsis genes associated to xylem fiber and phloem development. As of 2019, Google Scholar indicates 211 citations (186 citations since 2014), h-index of 7 and i10-index of 7. He has given numerous invited talks and has been co-chair at many conferences. He is co-author of over twenty papers published in international high impact peer review journals. He collaborates with many laboratories in Cameroon, Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Since 2017, he is coordinator of a Regional Master in Integrated environmental management and has been interim head of Department of Plant Biology at the University of Yaounde 1. He has supervised several MSc. and is co-supervisor of several Ph.D. studies. He teaches many courses related to Plant Biotechnologies and Environmental Sciences. He has been involved in proposals evaluations by the International Foundations of Science. He has been also involved in evaluation of pairs.