Biography

Sonia Irigoyen has worked in the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Weslaco for the past eight years, where she is currently a senior research scientist. With more than 20 years of experience in research, she has worked in breakthrough research, collaborating with Texas A&M faculty as well as other higher education institutions, and co-authored several publications. In 2022, she was one of the recipients of the Texas A&M Technology Commercialization’s Patents and Innovation Awards. Irigoyen has served on the editorial boards of PeerJ-Life and Environment, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation and currently serves on the Frontiers in Plant Microbiology editorial board.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in biology in 2001 and her master’s in genetics in 2005 from the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico. In 2011, she received her doctorate in molecular and environmental plant sciences at Texas A&M and worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Biology until 2015.