Dr Diego Márquez is a Research Fellow in the lab of Dr Florian Busch at the University of Birmingham, working on the role of mesophyll CO2 diffusion in photosynthesis. He received his PhD in 2021 from the Australian National University for his research on water and CO2 leaf gas exchange dynamics. Later, Dr Márquez took up a postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Graham Farquhar's lab, working on the physiology of plant transpiration and humidity gradients in the air spaces of leaves. Prior to his doctoral studies, He completed his Master's and undergraduate degrees in Agronomic Engineering at the University of Chile. Before pursuing his academic career, Dr Márquez worked for several years in the irrigation, plant nutrition, and viticulture industries.