Fernando Carlos Gómez-Merino was born in Vega de Alatorre, Veracruz, Mexico in 1970. He obtained his BSc Degree in Agronomy with Honors from the University of Veracruz (Mexico) in 1995. At the College of Postgraduates in Agricultural Sciences (Mexico), he obtained his MSc Degree in Genetic Resources and Productivity-Plant Physiology in 1998 and in 2004, he obtained his PhD (Dr. rer. nat) from the University of Potsdam in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm, Germany. He has written 10 books, 14 book chapters, and more than 140 articles related to crop production, plant nutrition, plant physiology, plant molecular biology, biotechnology, and innovation.