[Eddy Mendoza Galindo]

¡Hola a todos!

My name is Eddy Jesús Mendoza Galindo, I’m a hyper enthusiastic and highly motivated undergrad student of Agrogenomic Sciences at UNAM (México). I am studying population genomics of Agave for my thesis dissertation (at LANGEBIO MX and Desert Botanical Garden PHX) and have experienced above 9 research internships where I fell in love with plant science.

Since 2016, I have been teaching plant physiology to Mexican high school students pursuing a medal at the National and International Biology Olympiad. There was when I received the “Phytoman” nickname, they said, there is not any other who loves plants as I do!
Eventually, the idea of Phytoman became a character: a superhero who knows everything about plant science and uses his knowledge to save our problems arising from our society.
I use my developing art, literature, and music abilities to create videos, comics, and songs to share plant science with kids, students, and more.
Since I have grown in a very small country town, I am proud to represent the people who truly cohabitate with plants and give back what they deserve since academia uses to forget them.

Being part of the foundation of a national network of students was always been my dream, now it is a huge project aiming to communicate science to my whole country (biologosdefrontera.com). This pandemic has taught us we have the responsibility to share our work, thereby, it became imperative to break barriers between science and society as soon as possible.

There is still a long way on my road as Plant Scientist and I believe Plantae, Fitoman, and us together can be real superheroes and start a change in our world.