Smart analytical methods and applied chemometrics group – Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria in Como

Research in applied chemometrics in Como began at the end of the 90s, thanks to prof. Andrea Pozzi, associate professor of analytical chemistry in the Faculty of Sciences (currently Department of Science and High Technology) in Como. Working with cultural heritage and environment, he understood the importance of multivariate analysis techniques both in the optimization of analytical methods and in the analysis of complex data. Prof. Pozzi owes his training to prof. Roberto Todeschini, head of the Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group, and since then he transmitted his passion for chemometrics to his students and among them to Barbara Giussani, a young student (this was me at that time!) interested in analytical chemistry. In 2000 I decided to improve my knowledge in chemometrics with an ERASMUS period at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona), under the supervision of prof. Ricard Boqu e, and since that time applied chemometrics has become my main research topic. Interestingly, the first data set that prof. Boqu e gave me and on which he gave me the very first bases of Principal Component Analysis, concerned forages analysed by NIR spectroscopy. Giulia Gorla, PhD student