Alejandro Olivieri was born in Rosario, Argentina, on July 28, 1958. He obtained his B.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry from the Catholic Faculty of Chemistry and Engineering in 1982, and his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rosario in 1986. He currently works in the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the latter Faculty, and is a fellow of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). He has published about 180 scientific papers in international journals, several books and book chapters and supervised nine Ph.D. Theses. He was John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow (2001-2002).