Education

• B.S. Biology. Universidad Central de Venezuela. 1998.
• M.S. Pure and Applied Fungal Taxonomy. Reading University. 1991.
• Ph.D. Vegetal Biology I. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2002.

Current research

• Systematics and Floristics

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Legumes from the Yucatan Peninsula.
• Digital Flora from the Yucatan Peninsula.
• Systematic of the Pithecellobium alliance

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Duno De Stefano, R., Loera, I., Angulo, D. F. 2020. A reassessment of Mappia (Icacinaceae) taxonomy using environmental data. Acta Botanica Mexicana 127: e1716. https://doi.org/10.21829/abm127.2020.1716.
• Pérez-Sarabia, J-. E., Duno de Stefano, R., Cetzal-Ix, W., Alvarado-Segura, A. A. & Basu S. K. 2020. Conservation assessment using the IUCN criterion B: A case study on palms of the Mexican portion of the Yucatán Peninsula Biotic Province. Kew Bulletin 75: 10.1007. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-020-09896-2.
• Hernández Urban, H., Angulo, D., Lascurain, M., Avendaño, S., Can, L., Stull, G. & Duno de Stefano, R. 2019. Systematics and phylogeny of Oecopetalum (Metteniusaceae), a genus of trees endemic to North and Central America. Revista de Biología Tropical. 67.10.15517. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v67i4.33367.
• BFG. 2018. Brazilian Flora 2020: Innovation and collaboration to meet Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC). Rodriguésia 69(4): 1513-1527. https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-7860201869402.
• Lavin, M, R. T. Pennington, R. Duno de Stefano, C. E. Hughes, L. P. de Queiroz, G. P. Lewis, D. Cardoso, A. Delgado-Salinas & M.F. Wojciechowski. 2018. Sequence Variation among Conspecific Accessions of the Legume Coursetia caribaea Reveals Geographically Localized Clades Here Ranked as Species. Systematic Botany 43(3): 664–675. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364418X697382.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2005. Latin American Research Fellowship. Research Stay, Kew Garden.
• 2006. Rupert Barneby Award. New York Botanical Garden.
• 2007. Cuatrecasas Award. Smithsonian Institute.
• 2014. Alwyn H. Gentry Missouri Botanical Garden scholarship.

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• Technical summary – Systematics and Floristry : 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. CICY Herbarium.
• Native Flora of the Yucatan Peninsula (Spanish).
• Yucatan Adventure Geo-Travel Guide.
• Endemic Flora of the Yucatán Peninsula (Spanish).