Miguel Herrero Uceda


Miguel Herrero Uceda is a writer, lecturer and natural scientist committed to the defence of the environment and the conservation of popular traditional culture. He has a PhD in artificial intelligence and was a professor at Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He is a promoter of the natural philosophy "arbotherapy", a therapy to combat the stress and the anxiety generated by modern world.

Life and career

Uceda is a collaborator of the Más Árboles Foundation for the regeneration and creation of new forests and a contributor to magazines and newspapers including El Mundo, El Periódico de Extremadura, Foresta, Tecnociencia, The ecologist, Revista Natural, and Guardabosque.
He is the brother of painter Antonio José Herrero Uceda and of writer Elisa Herrero Uceda.
On May 31, 2014, he organised, along with poet José Iglesias Benítez, Beturia Cultural association president, the meeting of Extremaduran writers from inside and outside of Extremadura, Extremaduran Writers Day, in Ceclavín.
On May 30, 2015, he organised, along with the community The Bohème, the Poets and Artists International Meeting in favour of the nature "Men, forests and jungles" at the Palace of the Infantado in Guadalajara.

Books

Exhibitions about nature and popular culture.
Both documentaries participated in the Cycle of Scientific Cinema – visual Space organised in 2011 by ASECIC and by the National Museum of Natural Sciences.

Awards