Luis Ricardo Hernández is a Full Professor at the Chemistry and Biology Department at Universidad de las Américas Puebla. He earned his Doctorate in Chemistry at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina. He received awards as National Researcher by the National Research Council of Argentina and the National Research System of Mexico. His research focuses on the isolation and structural elucidation of secondary metabolites of plants with potential as pesticides, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and cytotoxic activities. He studies secondary metabolites at trace levels for chemotaxonomic purposes and has reported the isolation and spectroscopic characterization of about a hundred new natural products.