Jose Manuel Amigo is a Research Professor at IKERBASQUE, the Basque Foundation for Sciences in Bilbao and a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Basque Country, Spain. He obtained his PhD (Cum Laude) in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He was employed as a post-doctoral student (2007 - 2009) and an Associate Professor (2010 - 2019) at the Department of Food Science of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2017, he was at the same time a guest Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Current research interests include hyperspectral and digital image analysis and the application of Chemometrics (i.e. Machine and Deep Learning). He has authored over 180 publications (150+ peer-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, proceedings, etc.) and has given more than 60 conferences and courses at international meetings. Jose has supervised or is currently supervising several MSc, PhD and Post Docs, and he is an editorial board member of four scientific journals within chemometrics. Moreover, he received the "2014 Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems Award for his achievements in the field of Chemometrics and the "2019 Tomas Hirschfeld Award for his achievements in the field of Near Infrared.
