Fernando V. Molina, Ph.D., is a principal researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of Materials, Environment and Energy and an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His research interests include soil chemistry, specifically soil pollution, pollutant detection, and phytoremediation, as well as conducting polymers, their physicochemical properties, and materials based on these. He obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires in 1985.