Experience

New York Botanical Garden
• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 300 - 400 Employee
• Chief Science Officer and Dean of the International Plant Science Center

  • Jun 2023 - Present


Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Oct 2021 - Jun 2023

• • Jul 2016 - Jun 2023

  Email: M.Diazgranados@kew.orgOff. Tel: +44 (0) 1444 894 172


Jardín Botánico de Bogotá José Celestino Mutis
• Scientific Director

  • May 2014 - Jan 2016


Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Sep 2012 - Aug 2014

  Working under the supervision of Dr. Vicki Funk. Project: Investigating the directional species turnover and non-directional species variation along latitudinal, longitudinal and elevational gradients in the Guiana Shield. Working under the supervision of Dr. Vicki Funk. Project: Investigating the directional species turnover and non-directional species variation along latitudinal, longitudinal and elevational gradients in the Guiana Shield.



Saint Louis University

• Philippines
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Postdoctorate Researcher

  • May 2012 - Sep 2012

  Investigate the origin and utility of an ORF region of mtDNA in numerous fungi. Investigate the origin and utility of an ORF region of mtDNA in numerous fungi.


Missouri Botanical Garden
• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee
• Graduate Student

  • 2006 - 2012
• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jul 2010 - May 2011

  Janet C. Barber, Ph.D. Project: Developing amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) as a tool for reconstructing phylogenetic relationships within Macaronesian Sideritis L. Janet C. Barber, Ph.D. Project: Developing amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) as a tool for reconstructing phylogenetic relationships within Macaronesian Sideritis L.

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jul 2009 - May 2010

  Janet C. Barber, Ph.D. Project: Inferring phylogenetic relationships within the Espeletia complex (Asteraceae) based on Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs) data. Janet C. Barber, Ph.D. Project: Inferring phylogenetic relationships within the Espeletia complex (Asteraceae) based on Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs) data.

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jul 2008 - May 2009

  Janet C. Barber, Ph.D. Project: Chromosomal evolution in Macaronesian Sideritis L. (Lamiaceae Janet C. Barber, Ph.D. Project: Chromosomal evolution in Macaronesian Sideritis L. (Lamiaceae

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jul 2007 - May 2008

  Janet C. Barber, Ph.D. Project: Origin and evolution of Ludwigia (Onagraceae Janet C. Barber, Ph.D. Project: Origin and evolution of Ludwigia (Onagraceae



Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

• Colombia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Full Time Instructor Professor, Director of the Herbarium HPUJ, Department of Biology

  • 2001 - 2006

  Lecturer for ten (10) different courses in the fields of Botany, Ecology, Systematics and Taxonomy. Lecturer for ten (10) different courses in the fields of Botany, Ecology, Systematics and Taxonomy.


Biosistema Ltda
• Researcher consultant

  • Jan 2003 - Dec 2003

EAAB, Ecosystems Department
• Researcher consultant

  • Jan 2000 - Dec 2001


Universidad Piloto de Colombia

• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• • Jan 1999 - Dec 2001

• • 1999 - 2001

  Lecturer for the course of Theories in Environment and Technology.


Jardín Botánico de Bogotá
• Colombia
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Research Assistant

  • Aug 1997 - Nov 1999