XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF RICE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN & 9th International Rice and Wheat Blast Conference

B.Sc. in Biotechnology from the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica and M.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources with emphasis in Biotechnology from the University of Costa Rica. D. in Agricultural Sciences (Dr. sc. agr.) from the University of Hohenheim (Germany).

His areas of interest include plant breeding through the use of genetic engineering and genome editing, plant tissue culture, mutation induction and detection in plant crops, and plant molecular biology with emphasis on molecular markers and detection of genetically modified organisms.

He is currently a professor and researcher at the Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology of the School of Biology of the University of Costa Rica.