Francisco Javier Flores Graduated from the Biotechnology Engineering program at the University of the Armed Forces in 2008. He received his M.Sc. in 2010 and his Ph.D. in 2014, both from the Department of Entomology and Phytopathology at Oklahoma State University. During his postgraduate studies, he worked mainly on fungicide toxicology, phylogenetics, plant-pathogen relationships, and molecular identification of microorganisms. He is currently a research professor at the Department of Life Sciences and Agriculture at the University of the Armed Forces-ESPE where he works on multiple projects related to biodiversity, phytopathology, and the molecular identification of microorganisms, and a guest researcher in the Department of Engineering and Industries at UTE University and adjunct professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Oklahoma State University.