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.

 Co-Chairman for Cultural Heritage. Full professor of Environmental and Cultural Heritage Chemistry at Rome University, La Sapienza. Already full professor of Analytical Chemistry. Actually engaged in the field of Environmental Chemistry, Toxicological Analytical Chemistry and Biosensors. In the past other fields of interest: Electroanalytical Chemistry, Food Analysis, Bioindicators, Cultural Heritage and diffusion of Scientific Culture.
 Author of three books of Analytical Applied Chemistry, of more than 400 papers in the preferred research topics and of three patents. From 2008 President of Italian Chemical Society, also President of Government National Order of Chemist for italian centre region.

 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.

 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.

 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 prof. Rowland and Blake.
 From 1999 until now he has appointed as Researcher at the ISPESL Research Centre (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.

 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 wastewater 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 or kode-solutions.net

 Full Professor of Environmental and Cultural Heritage Chemistry at University of Parma. Graduated in chemistry from the University of Parma (Italy) in 1980. In 1983, she joined the Faculty of the same University at Dipartimento di Chimica Generale ed Inorganica, Chimica Analitica, Chimica Fisica. In the period 2001-2013, she is the chief of Laurea degree course "Science for Cultural Heritage" in this University.
 Since 1986 she carries out researches in the application of the chemistry to Cultural Heritage field. Her research is documented with 180 papers printed on international journals and numerous works presented in congress.
 Main research topics are: 1. Development of analytical methods for the characterization and the conservation of works of art, including the identification of binding media and pigments in paintings. 2. Analytical test of innovative cleaning methods for works of art (scientific studies carried out with Paolo Cremonesi, CESMAR7). 3. Archaeometric studies of excavated materials. 4. Anthropology studies.

 Dr Alessandra Genga is researcher of Environmental Chemistry and Cultural Heritage Chemistry, in the Faculty of Sciences of Salento University. Her research activity has been articulated on the following thematic of search: study of physical-chemical parameters in environmental matrix, such as soil, sediment and water; study of ceramic and glass finds in order to define technological and manufacturing aspects and to retrieve provenance and chronology.
 In last years her scientific interest is turned to the study of particulate matter and, especially, in its chemical-physical and morphological characterization in order to investigate its origin, formation, transport and reactivity.

 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.

 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.

 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 centres.

 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.

 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. .

 Full professor of "Chemistry of Technologies": - is the director of the applied electrochemistry laboratory of Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering (SBAI) - "Sapienza" University of Rome - is a member of the CNIS Steering Committee (Research Institute for Nanotechnology) - is a member of ISMN (Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials) of CNR.

 Full professor 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 "analyticae itineri", 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.

 Major of CMA4CH Meeting from the first edition, 2006. Coordinator of Committees. At present contract professor in Rome University; in the course "Laboratorio Chimico di Conservazione e Trattamento dei Materiali". 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 45 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).

 Graduated in Analytical Chemistry at Rome University "La Sapienza" on October 2012. Author of some congress presentations concerning the analytical use of biosensors for the ethanol determination in alcoholic beverages, today he works as free lance researcher at the Department of Chemistry, at Rome University "La Sapienza".

 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.

 Emanuele Dell'Aglio received his Master in Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, with honours, in 2017 at the "La Sapienza" University of Rome. Currently he is continuing his studies by attending the course Degree in Analytical Chemistry at the same University. He is a member of research groups whose objectives are preservation of Cultural Heritage through the production of innovative methodologies and tools for conservation and restoration, in this regard since 2018 participates in the Italian national project "Smart Cities".
 He is actively involved in the field of scientific dissemination as a member of the jury of national awards for scientific dissemination, moreover, he writes from 2017 articles published on the blog "Research for Cultural Heritage".
 From the 6th edition of the Mediterraneum meeting CMA4CH (2016) he is part of the organizing committee. He is author of articles and posters on new methods of restoration and environmental monitoring of natural waters.

 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.

 Graduated in 2010 at Rome University in Course of "Sciences Applied to Cultural Heritage for Diagnostic and for Conservation". He obtain his first level's degree (2007) in the same Laurea Course at "La Sapienza" University. Already worker as conservation scientist in Ars Mensurae company, today PhD candidate.

 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 "analyticae itineri", to be followed approaching a work of art, in order to ensure the maximum information with the minimum damage.

 Graduate in Chemistry with a thesis on "Characterisation of the spring water inside the Basilica Ulpia in Roman Forum, rediscovering an ancient source?" at University of Rome "La Sapienza".
 First level's Degree in Chemistry at La Sapienza University with a thesis on a Roman Domus in Ostia Antica.

 Coordinator of Committees. At present appointed professor in Rome University; in the course "chemistry and chemometrics for environment and cultural heritage". 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).

 Master in Analytical Chemistry (in 2013) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". During 2013, she has been Laboratory/teaching assistant for some analytical chemistry courses. In September 2013 she became a PhD student working on a joint project between the University of Copenhagen (KU) and the Norwegian research institute for food and fishery (NOFIMA). She obtained her PhD degree from the university of Copenhagen in November 2016. Her main field of interest are: Spectroscopy, Analytical chemistry, Data Analysis, Data-fusion, Classification and Variable selection.

 Dr. Alessandra De Lorenzi Pezzolo, graduated in Physics from Padua University, is a researcher in the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems of the University Ca' Foscari in Venice.
 After extensive work on high-resolution infrared spectroscopy on halogenated compounds of environmental interest, she is currently dealing with the use of diffuse refraction infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy for quantitative analysis and for classification of mineral mixtures and materials of interest in both Environmental and Cultural Heritage studies.

 Albena Detcheva is at present Associate Professor at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She graduated in 1985 from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ochridski". She got her PhD in Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry in 2001 and Habilitation in Analytical Chemistry in 2007. Her scientific interests are in the field of atomic spectrometry, direct solid sampling, hybrid materials, adsorption processes, water purification, chemometrics and metrology in chemistry.
 From 2004 to 2006 she worked as Detached National Expert at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute of Reference Materials and Measurements in Geel, Belgium. In 2004 she got qualification as authorised TrainMiC Trainer (Training in Metrology in Chemistry). She is member of Union of the Bulgarian Chemists, Bulgarian Catalysis Club and Union of the Metrologists in Bulgaria.

 Francesca Frasca earned the Master Degree in Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage in October 2014 (110/110 cum laude) from "La Sapienza" University of Rome, with a thesis on microclimatic characterization of an ancient Polish abbey sited in Krakow.
 Since November 2015, she is a PhD student at "La Sapienza" University of Rome with a project based on the implementation of a dynamic simulation model for heat and moisture transport in historical building components.

 Lidia Ivanova is at present PhD student at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She graduated in 2007 from University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, Technology of Inorganic Compounds. Her scientific interests are in the field of atomic spectrometry, adsorption processes, biosorption, water purification.
 Subject of her PhD-thesis is the use of plant materials for the removal of toxic ions from wastewaters.

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 Andrea Mistaro graduated in Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry) in 1999 at University of Trieste (Italy). He has been engaged firstly in gaschromatography applied to enology (2000-2004) in a private Laboratory, then (2005-2011) in water analyses at Environmental Protection Agency (ARPA FVG) of Friuli Venezia Giulia region (NE, Italy) and, finally, again in chromatography at the ARPA FVG Laboratory dedicated to air quality, sea water and sediments analyses, located in Trieste.
 He is currently dealing both with environmental chemical analyses and with data analyses and interpretations. He is a choir conductor and an active educator in history of music.

 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 City restoration laboratory.
 Co-author of some papers and congress presentations.

 Prof. Tsakovski is the head of Department of Analytical Chemistry, held the Group of Chemometrics and Environmetrics in the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia "St. Kl. Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria.