Argentine botanist and director of the Darwinion Institute of Botany in Buenos Aires. Fernando Zuloaga was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires province, and studied at the National University of La Plata, graduating as a botanist in 1974 from their Faculty of Natural Sciences. He went on to complete a doctorate in 1978 at the same institution, studying the Poaceae family. Remaining at the University of La Plata he became a professor in 1994 and lectured in phytogeography; in 1979 he began to research under CONICET (the National Council for Research in Science and Technology) and is currently a superior researcher (2007-).
fzuloaga@darwin.edu.ar