Francisco Emmanuel Espinosa Roldán studied Agricultural Engineering with a specialisation in Plant Science at the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo. He then entered the Institute of Horticulture at the same university to obtain a Master of Science degree in Horticulture, carrying out his experimental engineering work at the San Lorenzo vineyard of the Casa Madero Company. He then completed his Master's thesis at the Department of Agri-Food Research at the Madrid Institute for Rural, Agrarian and Food Research and Development (IMIDRA) in Alcalá de Henares (Spain). He is currently finishing his doctoral thesis at IMIDRA (Spain) and has focused on fruit growing, defining viticulture as his professional line of research, in which he has been involved in the identification and evaluation of minority grape varieties, both Spanish and European, and their adaptation to climate change.