Marco Grotti was born in Genoa in 1968. He graduated in 1992, received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1996 and he is currently Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Genoa. His research interests comprise fundamental studies in atomic spectrometry, development of new analytical methods for elemental, isotopic and speciation analysis of environmental matrices and their application to the study of polar ecosystems. He collaborates with prestigious research groups in the field and he has been involved in >20 research projects, funded by the European Union, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and the National Research Council. In the framework of PNRA (Italian National Program for Antarctic Research) and RIS (Research in Svalbard) projects, he participated on seven expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica, he is responsible of research units and supervisor of the scientific projects related to the Antarctic Environmental Specimen Bank.