Contributing to the field: With this Special Collection, the aim is to transcend the barriers of geography and highlight the recent work of Latin American Electrochemists around the world. If one does an arbitrary search for the word „electrochemical“ in the Web of Science Core Collection, one will find about 631 000 articles that date all the way back to 1900.1 If we refine the search to articles that include researchers with affiliations in Latin American countries, we find that the number of articles is reduced to 21 860, or around 3 % of all „electrochemical“ articles.2 Although a seemingly small number at first, if one further refines the search to identify the articles that were produced in the last 20 years we find this amount is slightly reduced to 19 056 papers. In other words, 87 % of the electrochemical papers in the region were done in the last two decades. This speaks volumes about the commitment of Latin American researchers to contribute to the field of electrochemistry. Especially in the last few decades, in which time electrochemistry has become popular in diverse areas of research in science and engineering, including material science, energy applications, organic synthesis, and medicine. Within these 19 000+ Latin American articles one can also observe that Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile are leading the way in number of publications,3 which correlates with both the population and the more consistent government investments into research and education. Latin America is also well known for its somewhat tumultuous political history and economic instability, which has triggered the migration of many Latin American researchers to locations all over the world. These talented researchers, many of whom were educated in Latin America, are also contributing to electrochemistry research in diverse areas. Therefore, with this Special Collection, we want to transcend the barriers of geography and highlight recent works of Latin American Electrochemists around the world. This Collection is also special in the sense that it will be continuously updated to include future submissions from Latin American colleagues. So, if you want to learn more about what Latin American electrochemists are doing, read on… Nella M. Vargas-Barbosa was born and raised in the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico, where she grew up and completed her Bachelor's in Chemistry at the Rio Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico. After completing her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Penn State University (USA), she moved to pursue an academic career in Germany that included stays at the University of Marburg and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Nella is now an independent Young Investigator Group Leader at the Helmholtz Institute Münster (Germany). There, she leads the iPEC lab (interfacial photoelectrochemistry lab), which focuses on studying (photo)electrochemical systems that have applications for energy generation and energy storage. The goals of the group range from elucidating the fundamentals of charge-transport at heterogeneous interfaces in model systems to more application-oriented projects characterizing solid-solid interfaces and interphases in solid-state batteries. Benjamin Scharifker obtained his first degree in Chemistry at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas (Venezuela), and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Southampton (UK). He joined Simón Bolívar University as Assistant Professor and, ascending through the ranks, served as Head of the Chemistry Department, Research Dean, Vice-rector for Administration, Rector, and currently as Professor Emeritus. He was Assistant Director of the Hydrogen Center at Texas A&M University (USA) and Visiting Professor at Southampton and Bristol (UK). In Venezuela, he was also Rector at Metropolitan University of Caracas, Secretary General at the Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the board of directors at the National Research Council, and Secretary of the Association of University Rectors. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 papers on interfacial electrochemistry, the kinetics of electrochemical reactions, electrochemical phase formation, conducting polymers, advanced oxidation of organics, and energy conversion, and holds three U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Venezuelan Academy of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, the Latin American Academy of Sciences, and The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. Ana Sofia Varela obtained her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2008. Later, she did a Master's in „fuels and energy for the future“ at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). She received her PhD from the Technical University of Denmark in 2013, where she worked on the thesis „The catalysis of CO2 electroreduction and related processes“. In 2014, she joined Prof Strasser's group at the Technical University of Berlin (Germany). In December 2016, she joined the UNAM's institute of Chemistry, where she has her own research group in electrocatalysis. As a recognition to her work, she received a ‘Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship’ in 2018 and, in 2019, she was named „International Rising Talents“ on behalf L'Oreal-UNESCO. Carlos A. Martínez-Huitle graduated in Chemistry at Universidad de las Américas-Puebla (México). He received his PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Ferrara (Italy). He also conducted his research in Switzerland, Japan, Italy, México, Chile, France, Spain, and Germany. Since 2008, he has been a Full Professor in the Institute of Chemistry at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil). He has been internationally awarded for his contributions in the field of electrochemical wastewater and disinfection-treatment. He is author and co-author of more than 400 scientific publications, including conference books, book chapters, books, more than 280 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals (h-index of 52, >15000 citations), papers in national scientific journals, more than 90 contributions in conference proceedings and a co-inventor of four patents. His research interests include electrochemical advanced oxidation processes for water treatment, electrocatalytic materials, electrocatalysis, photo(electro)catalysis, electroorganic synthesis, electroanalysis as well as the construction of electrochemical-sensors, green hydrogen production and waste valorization. He was a senior scientist at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany) supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2018, 2020 and 2021) and, currently, he is a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha (Spain).