Jorge Omar Pierini was born in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He currently works at the Inquisur-Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry (Department of Chemistry), Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca. He is an independent researcher at the Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC). He has a degree in Oceanography, with focusing in Marine Physics, and has graduated in 1985 at the Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS). He has been a specialist in Environmental Engineering since 1995 at the La Plata Regional Faculty, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, and a specialist in Environmental Impact Evaluation, where he ended his studies at the Instituto de investigaciones ecológicas in 2000. Finally, he has a doctorate in Sea Sciences and the Atmosphere, received at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) in 2007. His extensive experience lies in numerical modeling of bioquimic processes in aquatic environments. dispersion of hydrocarbons, sediments and spacetime distribution of different biological variables, alert and prognosis systems and operational systems. His interest in research encompasses earth sciences and is related to the environment, such as oceanography, hydrology and water resources.