Research Professor

IKERBASQUE. Basque Foundation for Sciences. Bilbao. Spain
Distinguished Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry (UPV/EHU)

• E-mail: josemanuel.amigo@ehu.eus
• ORCID: 0000-0003-1319-1312
• Scopus Author ID: 13408911100

Born in 1978. He obtained his PhD (Cum Laude) in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He was employed, first as a post-doctoral student (2007 – 2009) and afterwards as 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, Guest Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He is now a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of the Basque Country, Spain, and a Research Professor of IKERBASQUE, The Basque Foundation for Science.

Current research interests include hyperspectral and digital image analysis and the application of Chemometrics (i.e. Machine and Deep Learning). He has authored more than 180 publications (140+ 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, pharmaceutical sciences and analytical chemistry.

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. He is editor of the book “Hyperspectral Imaging. Volume 32. Elsevier. ISBN: 9780444639776. In Data Handling in Science and Technology.