Jens Soentgen is a philosopher, chemist, and Academic Director of the Environmental Science Center at the University of Augsburg. Since 2016, he has been an adjunct professor of philosophy at Memorial University in St. John’s, Canada and, since 2012, Co-editor of the journal GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. Soentgen’s writing on the history and theory of chemistry, as well as on the specifics of individual materials, has been published widely both for the scientific community and for young readers.