Johan Westerhuis receives EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemometrics

On Wednesday, November 17, 2010, Dr. Johan A. Westerhuis, University of Amsterdam, received the 2010 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemometrics.

Johan Westerhuis started his Analytical Chemistry and Chemometrics education at Laboratory school in Groningen, and obtained his MSc in Chemometrics in the group of Prof. Kateman and Dr. Buydens in Nijmegen. He finished his PhD work in 1997 on Multivariate Statistical Modeling of the Pharmaceutical Process of Wet Granulation and Tableting using multiblock (path-) models at the University Centre for Pharmacy at the University of Groningen. After his PhD he worked one year in Canada as a postdoc at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, with Prof. John MacGregor and Dr. Dora Kourti on batch process monitoring and multi-block methods. In 1998 he joined the Process Analysis & Chemometrics group, which is now the Biosystems Data Analysis group at the Universiteit van Amsterdam to work with Professor Age Smilde. He teaches statistics and biochemical data analysis at a bachelor and master level and supervises PhD students and postdoc's in process analysis and metabolomics data analysis. Johan Westerhuis chaired the Dutch Chemometrics Society for several years and organized International Chemometrics Research Meetings (ICRM) in 2002 and 2006. Since 2005 he is the European editor of the Journal of Chemometrics and recently became the organizer of the data analysis interest group of the Metabolomics Society.

His current research interest focuses on the analysis of metabolomics data especially in the field of human systems biology. He develops grey models to incorporate prior information of the biological system (e.g. in databases) in the analysis of complex metabolomics data. (UvA)

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