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 Chairman. Richard Brereton is Professor of Chemometrics and Director of the Centre for Chemometrics in Bristol (UK). He obtained his BA, MA and PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK). He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Chartered Chemist, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2006 Theophilus Redwood lectureship. He is author of the book Chemometrics: Data Analysis for the Laboratory and Chemical Plant (Wiley 2003), and author Applied Chemometrics for Scientists (Wiley 2007), and was fortnightly Feature Writer in Chemometrics for the Alchemist and Associate Editor of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. He is Chemometrics editor for Chemistry Central Journal. He has published more then 300 articles, 15 book chapters and 6 edited/authored books. He has given 143 invited lectures in 24 countries worldwide, supervised 117 coworkers in Bristol and acted as referee for over 40 journals.
 His current research interests include pattern recognition in forensics, biology, pharmaceuticals, medicine, environment and plastics using data obtained from chromatography, thermal analysis, acoustic spectroscopy, NMR and mass spectrometry.

 A. Montenero is full Professor and appointed Director of the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry at Parma University. From 1987 he was appointed President, and still is, the Consortium Research Innovation on Glass, and participate in this consortium at the last research for a new glass starting from ash coming from waste treatment process.
 He is member of Editorial Board of some international journal and member of scientific committee of some international congresses. Was a visiting professor of prestigious institutions as the SUNY College of Ceramics Alfred NY and the Institute of Chemical Research of Kyoto, also part of the Technical Committee TC23 of the International Commission on Glass.
 From many years the knowledge on glass was spent also in study on ancient glass, from composition to degradation, from production to conservation, producing over 160 publications in international journals and holds eight patents on sensors, high refractive index glass, and vitrification of waste from municipal incinerators. .

 Co-Chairman for Environmental. From 1989 associate professor at Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria, Institute for Chemistry, Analytical Division. Principal research field are: environmental analytical chemistry, geochemistry, distribution of elements in nature and the food chain, trace element analysis by Voltammetry, AAS and ICP-MS, analytical chemistry of air pollutants, atmospheric chemistry.
 Author of about 70 papers and communications in international journals and congresses.

 Co-Chairman for Chemometrics. PhD in Chemical Engineering at University of Washington 1991. President and Co-Founder, Eigenvector Research, Inc., a full service chemometrics research, development, consulting and software company. Author of PLS_Toolbox chemometrics software for use with MATLAB. Dr. Wise has introduced chemometric methods to well over 1000 students in many short courses, attended by both graduate students and employees of corporations small and large, including many Fortune 500 companies.
 In September-November, 2008, Dr. Wise was a Visiting Researcher, at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Automatic Control Laboratory, in Lausanne, Switzerland, where his research focused on methods for updating multivariate calibration models. Author of more then 50 scientific publications and many presentations at international congresses.

 Degree in chemistry at Pisa University in 2000. Chemometric consultant since 2002. Expert in Experimental Design and Multivariate data analysis in the field of environmental chemistry, industrial research and process control.
 Actually involved in food industries process control, industrial waste water treatment, metal alloy design and environmental electronic nose measurement.
 Partner of a Siena University (Italy) spin-off project named TerraData Environmetrics. More information on www.chemiometria.it

 Professor and Senior Researcher of the Institute of Materials Science and Technology, University of Havana, Cuba. Graduated in Physics in 1976 at this University and Ph.D. in Chemistry at Rome University "La Sapienza". Her current research area is focusing on the development of electrochemical sensors and microsensors and its associated instrumentation, for environmental and biomedical application. She has participated/coordinated several national and international scientific projects and published numerous papers in scientific journals and proceedings. She has been referee of international journals and member of scientific committee of some international congresses and visiting professor of the University of Rome and has been invited to give talks in universities of Italy, Germany, Chile and Uruguay.
 She was organizer of the first Iberoamerican Congress on Sensors and Biosensors at the University of Havana in 1998 and founder of the IBERSENSOR, Iberoamerican organization created for the development of sensor technologies over Iberoamerica.

 Today at Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, already Professor at Chemistry Department, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. PhD in Analytical Chemistry on 1995 with a research on thermodynamic and kinetic of complexation. Visiting researcher at University of Delaware, 2006, studying signal denoising algorithms. Main researches are on: thermodynamic and kinetic study of ligands, software applications for refinement of analytical data, interfacing and automation, application of various chemometrics technique. Up today engaged in: investigation of the effects of air pollution on the monument stone in Kermanshah region, analysis of drinking water of many water wells in western of Iran, design and manufacturing an automated analysis system, recycling of the chemical refinery wastes.
 Have about 100 papers published in international journals and about same number of congress participation.

 Full professor of physic at Rome University. He is between the founders of the Italian Archeometry Association and a promoter of the Science and Technologies Courses applied to Cultural Heritage.
 He is at present the "President of the Advice" of Laurea Course in Sciences Applied To Cultural Heritage and Italian National Coordinator of "The College Of The Presidents" of such study courses.
 His scientific interests have been initially in the development of imaging techniques and of spectroscopy for medical jobs, today are tuned principally in Archeometry and in Conservation Of The Cultural Heritage.

 Researcher in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Insubria in Como. Her research activity is mainly devoted to the development of new analytical methodologies for analysis of trace metals in different matrices and applied Chemometrics. The acquired expertises gave the opportunity to lead research works in Environmental Sciences, Catalysis, Cultural Heritage and Archaeology.
 An ongoing collaboration with CAMO Process AS for training in statistical analysis has been established.

 Teaching Chemistry in the Université of Bejaia, Algeria. His area of research is: Chemometrics and spectrophotometry.
 Author of some presentations at international conference and publication about the simultaneous determination of metals by UV visible spectrophotometry using chemometrics methods, on industrial effluents and post-hemodialysis fluids.

 Riccardo Leardi graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in 1983. Since then he has been working in the section of Analytic Chemistry of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Food Chemistry and Technology of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Genova. His research field is Chemometrics. His interests are mainly devoted to problems related to food, environmental and clinical data, and to experimental design and process optimization.
 In the last years his research focused mainly on genetic algorithms and on three-way methods.He developed a software for the application of genetic algorithms in variable selection and, in collaboration, a software for the application of backward interval PLS to remove non-relevant spectral regions.
 He is author of about 90 papers and 90 communications in national and international meetings; he has been an invited speaker in 15 international meetings and in several industries and research centers.

 Born in Rome in 1977, dr. Federico Marini received his M.Sc. in Chemistry in 2000 and his Ph.D in Chemical Sciences in 2004 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", where he is, at present, Research Associate. In 2003, he was visiting researcher at the National Institute of Chemistry (Ljubljana, Slovenia) for 4 months, working with the group of prof. Jure Zupan on the application of artificial neural networks to different chemical problems.
 His research activity is focused on different aspects of chemometrics, with particular attention to the design and setup of new algorithms and to the application of various classification techniques to the authentication of foodstuff.

 Professor Degree in Geology, Aveiro University, Portugal, 2005. Responsible for the Cultural Heritage and Sciences Group at Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (Portugal Nuclear and Technological Institute).
 Principal fields of research: nuclear methods of analyses and absolute dating by luminescence applied to cultural heritage and earth sciences; trace elements geochemistry; gamma spectrometry; environmental geology.
 Author of about 40 papers in international journals, books and congress presentation.

 Researcher at Rome University, La Sapienza. The research activity was mainly focused on analytical applications of electrochemistry while, actually, it is strongly bound with the didactic activity and regards the application of, mainly, non invasive/non destructive or microinvasive/non destructive analysis of ancient objects of art in Cultural Heritage field.
 The full activity (didactic and scientific) aims to suggest the proper "analytica iter", to be followed approaching a work of art, in order to ensure the maximum information with the minimum damage.

 Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy. Her scientific activity is centred on the study of surfaces and interfaces by XPS (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) and specialises in the analysis of spectra by curve fitting using a program which was developed in the course of a long-standing collaboration with the University of Surrey, UK (PhD thesis). The XPS laboratory work principally for students courses and applications on environmental issues and on the preservation and restoration of artistic and monumental heritage.
 The prof. Salvi published more then 65 papers (and as many Congress contributions) in the filed of surface analysis and participate to several projects of National and European significance.

 Full professor at Rome University. Research interests are in the development of electrochemical sensors and biosensors working both in aqueous and organic solvents and in their application to environmental, biopharmaceutical and food analysis.
 Also interests are in thermoanalytical studies (TG, DTA, DSC) for the stability or purity control and the characterisation of several materials (drugs, foodstuffs, polymers, ancients, etc.) and in the study and characterisation of archaeological finds and cultural heritages, investigated by means of several instrumental techniques of chemical analysis.
 Have about 300 publications and 450 communications to Congresses, overall in the above recorded fields of research.

 Coordinator of Committees. At present appointed professor in Rome University; in the course "chemistry for restoration and chemometry". Already contract professor, and contract researcher, at Chemistry Department, as well as coworker from 1982 for the acquisition, processing, and chemometrics treatment of the analytical and environmental chemist data with the Prof. L. Campanella research group
 As visible in photo engaged in diagnoses on cultural heritage (XVI century frescos, XV century tortoises fountain) and environmental remediation. He is co-author of more than 35 papers on international scientific journals and same number of congress communications. Last work is scientific coordinator of a chemometrics training course for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

 To be graduate (laurea magistralis) in Analytical Chemistry at Rome University, La Sapienza. Already author of some congress presentations and publications about degradation of new type of pollutants, drugs and personal care products, with HPOP (High Performance Oxidation Processes).

 Graduated in "Science Applied to Cultural Heritage for Diagnostic and Conservation" (first level degree) at Rome University "La Sapienza" on February 2008. He worked at the Institute for New Technologies, Energy and Environment of Rome (ENEA-Casaccia) on a thesis concerning the potentialities of white light profilometry on the study of ancient bronzes.
 On January 2010 he obtained a second level degree presenting a thesis titled "archaeometric study of ancient glass" carried out at the VUB university, Bruxelles.

 He received PhD discussing the thesis "Host-guest systems in molecular recognition". He moved to Genova (Advanced Biotechnlogy Center) to study gene expression with microarrays technology. In 2002 he came to University "La Sapienza" to work in the preparation of liposomes, synthesis of novel polymeric compounds and design of multifunctional delivery systems for non-viral gene therapy.
 Interested in molecular biology and medicine, he is author of more than 30 publications (scientific papers, book chapters and patents). For several times he was invited as speaker in international conferences.

 First level's Degree in Science for International Communication at Catania University. Engaged in: Italian-to-English, Italian-to-French, translation and viceversa, build information on place, forecast, historical, cultural heritage and travel for tourist and accompanying person of the Meeting.

 Susanne H. Plattner was born in Munich, Germany, in 1977. She moved to Rome, Italy in 1997. From 1997 to 1999 she attended a school for conservators of paintings. In 2003 she finished her first level degree at the University of Rome La Sapienza in "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage for Diagnostic and for Conservation" with a thesis about Digital Detection In Radiography Applied To Cultural Heritage. Her second level degree thesis, in 2006, concerned with composition-related corrosion of archaeological copper alloys of a coin hoard excavated in Fidenae territory.
 Obtain her PhD on Chemical Sciences at La Sapienza with a research interest focused on the corrosion of metals, primary copper alloys. Today contract researcher at La Sapienza university.

 Obtain his first level's degree (2007) in the Course of "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage for Diagnostic and for Conservation" at "La Sapienza" University.

 Researcher at Rome University, La Sapienza. The research activity was mainly focused on analytical applications of electrochemistry while, actually, it is strongly bound with the didactic activity and regards the application of, mainly, non invasive/non destructive or microinvasive/non destructive analysis of ancient objects of art in Cultural Heritage field.
 The full activity (didactic and scientific) aims to suggest the proper "analytica iter", to be followed approaching a work of art, in order to ensure the maximum information with the minimum damage.

 First level's Degree in "Science Applied to Cultural Heritage for Diagnostic and Conservation".

 First level's Degree in "Science Applied to Cultural Heritage for Diagnostic and Conservation" at Rome University "La Sapienza" on April 2010. She has completed an internship at "Palazzo Valentini" in Rome with a study of environmental monitoring and water composition of an ancient spring water in Roman Bath near the Domus.

 Coordinator of Committees. At present appointed professor in Rome University; in the course "chemistry for restoration and chemometry". Already contract professor, and contract researcher, at Chemistry Department, as well as coworker from 1982 for the acquisition, processing, and chemometrics treatment of the analytical and environmental chemist data with the Prof. L. Campanella research group
 As visible in photo engaged in diagnoses on cultural heritage (XVI century frescos, XV century tortoises fountain) and environmental remediation. He is co-author of more than 35 papers on international scientific journals and same number of congress communications. Last work is scientific coordinator of a chemometrics training course for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

 P. Avino received Master Science in Chemistry in 1992 and PhD in 1997 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". From 1997 to 1998 he was appointed as Post-graduate Researcher at the University of California, Irvine (USA) studying the separation of non-methane compounds and the halocarbons and their behaviour in atmosphere under the supervision of proff. Rowland and Blake.
 From 1999 until now he has appointed as Researcher at the ISPESL Research Center (Italy). Dr. Avino is involved in the Air Chemical Laboratory: his studies are devoted to the different aspects of the atmospheric pollution in residential and industrial sites. In 2003 he was the recipient of the "Environmental Sapio" Award for his research in the environmental field, in the atmospheric particulate matter.

 Art historian and paintings restorer. Head of the Sacred Art Department of the Orthodox Theology Faculty, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Involved in both didactic and cultural heritage preservation activities. The main field of research regards the painting restoration as a generator of cultural information.

 Paola Baldassarri is an archaeologist of the Province of Rome and worked up from beginning to the excavation under Palazzo Valentini in Rome in which since 2000 was started the archaeological investigations. With her contribute have been found two Roman Domus and a Roman Bath complex as well as thousands of objects from the Roman to medieval era.
 In addition to performing activities of supervision in the province of Rome is now exploring new archaeological excavations towards the Traian's Column. She has participated in many italian and international congresses and conferences on archeology.

 PhD candidate, Rome University, La Sapienza.

 Born in 1979 in Ioannina, Greece. She received her MSc in 2003 on "EDCs analysis in environmental samples" and her PhD with honors in 2009 on "Chemometric methods application for the analysis of EDCs in environmental samples and food commodities", both from the University of Ioannina. Employee of the University of Ioannina as Chemist and from 2010 she is responsible for the technical support and use of the Unit of Environmental, Organic and Biochemical high resolution analysis-ORBITRAP-LC-MS.

 Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.

 Degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (2002). Currently she is concluding her PhD in Analytical Chemistry with a thesis on "Oxidative stress and biological damage" and is also involved in a spin-off project on a multiparametric probe for food safety. Author of various publications focused on chemistry related to food, environment and cultural heritage.

 Has received his M.Sc. degree in environmental sciences in 2010 at the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. At the moment he is a Ph.D. student at the same university working on his thesis on the Kis-Balaton Water Protection System (W Hungary) using multi variant statistical methods. He is an author and co-author of many papers and congress communications, speaks English, Italian and German. During his studies he has won several prizes and scholarships. At the time of the conference he will be spending his "Ernst Mach" scholarship at the Technical University of Vienna.

 Employed at University of Pardubice, Institute of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Czech republic. Research activity in development of new methods and applications in Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry with Inductively Coupled Plasma, Elemental analysis of food, biological materials, environmental samples using ICP OES/MS, especially study of matrix effect and alternative sample pre-treatment steps.

 PhD candidate in the field of application nuclear techniques in examination of cultural heritage objects. Graduate physicist at University of Belgrade from 1997. Magister of Science in the field of electrical materials and electrical technology at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering from 2003.
 She was engaged in nine different national projects (funded by Ministry of Science or Environment), in two projects founded by IAEA-TC program. In 2007 she was IAEA Fellow in the Cemistry Unit, IAEA Laboratories in Seibersdorf. For ten years of career she was committed to environmental monitoring and protection activities and in last two years she is the member of archaeometry team in Vinča Institute of nuclear sciences.

 She graduated in Chemistry on 1999 at Bari University; PhD degree in "Scienze Ambientali"-Environmental Sciences on 2004. From December 2008 she is researcher, with permanent position, at Water Research Institute (Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque) IRSA-CNR, Bari Division (Italy). From December 2010 she is an external staff scientist researcher at Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Lecce division (Italy).
 Professional Interests: Sampling, chemical characterization, transport processes of fine fractions of particulate matter. Atmospheric pollutants analytical methods development and validation. Application of multivariate statistical methods (PCA, DFA, CA, APCS, TTFA, CMB) to atmospheric and groundwater pollutants for the source apportionment. Black carbon, Organic carbon and Water Soluble Organic Carbon studies both in PM segregated samples and PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 samples, collected in urban/remote areas.

 Graduated in Chemistry at the University of Rome, has worked at the Istituto Superiore di Sanita' from 1962 to 1964 and then at the National Centre for Restoration, Rome, from 1964 to 2001, when he retired, teaching also Chemistry for Restoration from 1967 up today and being Head of the laboratory of Chemistry from 1980 to 2001.
 He has collaborated in many international projects, also as expert for Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as ICCROM and UNESCO consultant, in India, Republic of China, Japan, Malta, Iran, France, Holland, Germany. He teached also from 1978 to 1988 in the international courses of ICCROM SPC, MPC and ARC.
 He has been ICR coordinator and 'after retirement' consultant for eight International Conferences on Non-Destructive Investigations, organized by ICR and AIPnD. He is author-coauthor of about 200 reports, 150 papers and five books.

 Full professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Orthodox Theological Faculty, Sacred Art Department, where he teaches the chemistry of art work materials and analytical methods for their investigation. He is author or co-author to 5 books and 3 Chapters of Encyclopedia of Chromatography.
 In the past other fields of interest: chromatography, food products analyses, pollutes analyses, toxic substances and drugs analyses. He also published 125 articles, 184 scientific communications and 30 patents. He edited a scientific journal and he is member of two specialized scientific journal boards from Romania and abroad.

 Born July 1981. PhD Student in Angelology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Experience in the techniques of conservation, archaeological materials, Theology and Cultural Heritage.

 Claudia Mazzuca was born in Rome in 1976. Since November 2007 she is assistant professor in Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemical Science and Technologies of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy. Since 2009 she has taught 'Physical Chemistry' in the degree of Methods and Technologies Restoration of Paper at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
 Recently, her research has been directed towards the development of new cleaning methodologies for paper materials. The results of these studies have been the subject of conference presentations and more than 25 publications.

 Dr. Stefano Ridolfi was born in Rome in 1969. He earned his degree in Physics with a research on Field Portable X Ray Fluorescence Spectrometers and applications in the Cultural Heritage. Since 2001 he manages a company "ARSMENSURAE" devoted to non destructive analysis on the Cultural Heritage with portable systems.
 More updated information about this activity can be found at www.arsmensurae.it . In the spare time he plays piano and plays with his wonderful 3 children.

 Master degree at 2010 in "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage for Diagnostic and for Conservation" at Rome University with a thesis on Corrosion Study of Burried Roman's Coins Using Multivarite Methods obtaining the full voting. Senior restorer with works and consulences on frescoes, ceramics, woods, stones, metals and archaeometrics.
 Today PhD candidate at La sapienza University with a partnership with Vatican restoration laboratory.
 Co-author of some papers and congress presentations.

 Currently on PhD studies on Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade. Her research field is environmental physical chemistry. She graduated on Faculty of Physics in 1999. She is specialist in environmental protection management, holding permanent position as a Head of Radioecology Department in Serbian Institute of Occupational Health "Dr Dragomir Karajović", Belgrade.
 In last ten years, she was working on radioecological research of the environment in the Republic of Serbia, mainly measuring gross alpha, beta and gamma activity using proportional counter and computerised system for gamma spectrometry with HP-Ge detectors.

 Second level degree in Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage for Diagnostic and for Conservation in 2011 with a thesis regarding the study of the molecular degradation of a contemporary pictorial work carried on a backing of polyurethane ("Superficie Lunare Composizione" by Giulio Turcato) and the test of new materials and methods for its restoration. Since January 2012 is a PhD student at Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Department, Aquila University, working on the study of new non-toxic paint strippers for wood artifacts.

 Born in Palma in 1985 and moved to Barcelona in 2003 to study electronics engineering in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech). Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the same university developing novel strategies to analyse and to identify artistic pigments in the Raman Spectroscopy Group applied to the analysis of art works. In parallel, he works as a software engineer in Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya designing and developing data processing systems for the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, aimed to create the largest and most precise three dimensional chart of the Milky Way.