Dr. Raúl Rodríguez is an Associate professor of chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (UPR-RP). He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the UPR-RP in 2010. In 2011, he completed postdoctoral experience in total synthesis at the University of Texas at Austin, and was selected and recognized as one of the 15 most outstanding young Puerto Rican scientists inside and outside PR by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). He joined the chemistry department at UPR-RP in 2021 and regularly teaches organic chemistry, and special topics in organic chemistry (medicinal natural products and food chemistry) and the laboratory of organic and biochemistry. He developed a chemical education research laboratory in organic chemistry and biochemistry with biological applications and is a mentor of one graduated student and seven undergraduate students. Dr. Rodriguez serves as a mentor for the UPR-RP ACS Project Seed and NSF-REU: PR-CLIMB programs. Currently, he is focused on chemical education research and has developed new laboratory experiments in organic chemistry and biochemistry and has performed the assessment of student performance, perceptions, and learning. He is a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society and the American Chemical Society (ACS). Recently, he received an award grant from the Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network (SSMN) of the Social Science Research Council and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.