Álvaro Santana Mayor finished his Bachelor`s degree in Chemistry in 2016 at the University of La Laguna (ULL), obtaining the Award of Merit for the Final Degree Project with the highest qualification, granted by the Ilustre Colegio de Químicos de Canarias. In 2017, he completed the Master’s Degree in Chemistry from the same university. In February 2023 , he defended his PhD  thesis in the ULL “Determination of compounds with endocrine disrupting activity using advanced analytical techniques combined with conventional and/or alternative extraction techniques in environmental and agri-food samples”,  supervised by Dr. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Delgado and Dr. Bárbara Socas Rodríguez and funded by a fellowship for the fulfillment of doctoral theses granted by the Canary Agency of Economy, Industry, Trade and Knowledge (ACIISI) of the Government of the Canary Islands .