Dr. Omar Paino Perdomo is Professor of Biology at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo and Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC). He has a Bachelor’s in Biology from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (DR), and a PhD in Biological Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (DE). He studied botanical techniques at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USA). He is in charge of the General Management of the Flora Department of Wildlife and Biodiversity at the State Secretary of Environmental and Natural Resources and Scientific Authority (CITES) in the Dominican Republic.
