Alberto Oliveros-Bastidas (Santa Barbara del Zulia-Venezuela) is an Associate
Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Universidad de Los Andes (U.L.A-Venezuela). He obtained his BSc in chemistry in 1993 (U.L.A), and his MSc and
PhD (Hons) degrees at the University of Cadiz (Spain), under the supervision of Francisco A. Macias. His PhD research was related to the processes controlling the allelopathic phenomenon in plants, including exudation, biotransformation and adsorption of allelochemicals. He is the author of more than 40 publications on chemical ecology and other chemical subjects. His current work is
focused on the development of new bioassays for modelling plant–plant chemical interactions.