Ph.D. Francisco Javier Pérez-García is a botanist and associated professor accredited by ANECA (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation), currently a researcher working at the University of Almería. He is an agronomist engineer (1996), and has a master’s (2002) and a doctoral degree (2014) from said university. He has developed 20 years of botanical research work focused on threatened flora, plant chorology, ex-situ conservation (seedbanks) and conservation biogeography, especially for the plants of the Betic mountains or those that grow on peculiar substrates. He is a member of the Spanish Society for Plant Conservation Biology (SEBICoP), the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET), the International Biogegraphy Society (IBS), the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), and the GYPNET researcher’s network.