German is a highly motivated biologist from Costa Rica, whose both short and long term goals involve working in natural resources management for sustainable development in rural localities from Latin America. He obtained his B.Sc. in Tropical Biology at the National University of Costa Rica, and then he got a specialization in Natural Resources Management by studying the effect of two soil types in plant traits associated with drought tolerance. He is interested in the study of tropical dry forests plant communities’ responses to climate change and the implications for social development, aiming to create tools that might facilitate conciliation between economic growth and nature conservation through forest management. During his graduate studies, he wants to focus on understanding the effects of current droughts on the tropical dry forests of Costa Rica, México, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, with the intention of generating physiological data to parametrize ecological models on ecosystem’s responses to climate change.