J. Esteban Hernández Bermejo received his PhD in agricultural engineering and is currently a professor of agricultural botany at the University of Córdoba, and chair of the research group on “Wild species with economic potential in Agronomy, Forestry and Gardening.” He is the director of the Andalusian Plant Germplasm Bank and he was director of the Botanic Gardens in Córdoba (1998–2008). Dr. Hernández Bermejo was the general secretary of the International Association of Botanic Gardens (1993–2012) as well as the president of the Ibero-Macaronesian Association of Botanic Gardens (1985–1988, 1990–1992, and 2000–2004); president of the Spanish Committee of the I.U.C.N. (World Conservation Union) (1994–2000); and coordinator of REDBAG (Spanish Network of Seed Banks of Wild Plants) (2002–2013). His research includes studies in biodiversity and wild phytogenetic resources, conservation techniques, germplasm banks, and extinction risk evaluation; ethnobotany, plant species with economic potential, neglected crops, and plant domestication; agronomy and gardening history, especially of the Middle Ages; plant ecology and phytogeography; plant taxonomy; and weed research. He has published over 160 scientific papers, has directed seventeen doctoral theses, participated in over 160 international and national congresses, and given more than 200 lectures.

Source: “Contributors.” 2014. Dumbarton Oaks. 2014. https://www.doaks.org/resources/middle-east-garden-traditions/contributor-biographies. Archived at: https://perma.cc/WF3E-ZNRM