Abdel Hernández San Juan is scientific research and author in the fields of philosophy, and language sciences such as theoretical linguistic and semiotic theory, while focused in cultural theory, and the sciences of culture, from the classical side of philosophy he is developing studies in deeper phenomenology and hermeneutic, discussing between another things, the ontology of interpretation both to the self of the individual subject, as to intersubjective communication and symbolic interactions, the formation and genesis of concepts from the dialectic of origins, including the phenomenological genesis of sign and language both in subjectivity and the formation of the self as well as in the quotidian life, in the field of theoretical linguistic and semiotic theory, he is deeperly doing research about the phenomenology of inside language and outside language, focusing logical issues about how thought, being and language interrelates itself in between, the studies for example of texere, on the one hand, weaves, and semiosis, as well as the relation between the concepts of inference and reading in the ontological genesis of both signs and texts, from the social science sides, he is doing major research about the relation between self and culture, focusing the ontology of experience and how acervo and the self are related in the ontological function of interpretive, sense and meanings, in the formation of experience and culture, he embrace and has turned to new innovative and original horizontes issues of phenomenological sociology, simbolic interaccionism and ethnomethodology, as well as exploring new interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary horizonts to the research of art and anthropology being a pioneer and initiator of this field, he have several empirical research fieldwork experiences in both rural and urban spaces and is also a contemporary art critic and curator. 

Author of books as The World Correlate: interpretant and Structure in Posmodern Cultural Theory, The Enigms of Ground: introduction to Phenomenological Sociology, Thinking Sciences: New Phenomenological Avenues between Philosophy and Sociology, Self and Acervo: The Phenomenology of the Self in the Hermeneutic of Culture, The Subject in Creativity: New Avenues in Anthropology of Art, between several others, is also the author of art criticism books such as Cultural Bodies; Art Criticism as Anthropology of Art/Approaches to art from Texas, The interpretation of Art: An Anthropological Approach to Contemporary Venezuelan Art, The Comphrehension of Art in Posvantgarde: An Anthropological approach to contemporary Cuban Art, and coautor of efforsts such as Evocation: A philosophical Dialogue with Stephen A Tyler on the concept of evocation as alternative to representation in anthropology, inference and Elucidation: Excerpts of Cultural Anthropology with italean archaeologist Alessandro Morganti Debra, on hermeneutic and exegesis between archaeology and art theory, or Counterpoint: Philosophical Dialogues and Rumbos: Explorations in Cultural Anthropology, with Alberto Mendez Suarez in the philosophy of sciences. 

Abdel is both a well know theoretical figure in the new avenues of postmodern anthropology from the new generation since the mid ninety in Texas, a new revival of the field started by he, with the participation of Quetzil Eugenio Castaneda (about who Hernandez have his book Anthropology of Archaeology) and Stephen A Tyler, as well as a major theoretical and critical figure in the fields of contemporary venezuelan art critique and cuban visual art critique from the eighties