Juan Antonio Fernandez Pierna
(Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W), Gembloux, Belgium)

Juan Antonio Fernandez Pierna got his Degree in physical chemistry at the University of Zaragoza, Spain in 1997. Afterwards, in 2003, he obtained his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Chemometrics) at the Analytical Chemistry department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Professor D. L. Massart) with a thesis entitled "Improvements in the multivariate calibration processes". Since 2003 he works as research assistant at the CRA-W in Belgium where he has been working for the statistical treatment of the data, the application of chemometrics and the validation of methods. From end 2009, he is also responsible of the Hyperspectral Imaging laboratory installed at the Food and Feed Quality Unit. He is author or co-author of 9 book chapters and around 65 scientific papers mainly related to the statistical treatment of spectroscopic data (including homogeneity detection and uncertainty estimation), food and feed authentication and imaging techniques. He is a member of the Belgian Chemometric Society and he was and is still involved at different EU projects: STRATFEED, TYPIC, TRACE, FEED SAFETY, SAFEED-PAP, QSAFFE, FOODINTEGRITY.