Prof. Dr. Alejandro César Olivieri has obtained his B.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry from the Catholic Faculty of Chemistry and Engineering, Argentina, in 1982, and his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rosario, Argentina, in 1986. He currently works in the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the latter Faculty, and is a fellow of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). He has published about 200 scientific papers in international journals, several books and book chapters and supervised ten Ph.D. theses. He was John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow (2001-2002). His primary research field is multivariate calibration, including first- and higher-order models, analytical figures of merit and software development.