Paolo Oliveri is an associate professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Genoa. His research activities are mainly in analytical spectroscopy and chemometrics. He has received awards for his research activity, including the 2010 Young Researcher Award of the Division of Analytical Chemistry (SCI) and the Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems Award 2020 (Elsevier).He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Division of Analytical Chemistry and President of the Liguria Section of SCI; he was Coordinator of the Division Group of Chemometrics; He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Chemometrics and the International Society for Spectral Imaging (IASIM).

Giorgia Sciutto is associate professor of Chemistry of the Environment and Cultural Heritage at the Department of Chemistry, University of Bologna. Her research activities mainly concern analytical spectroscopy and chemometrics applied to cultural heritage and environment. She has authored more than 75 publications in scientific journals and is currently national coordinator of a PRIN PNRR project “Diorama – A deep dive into the study of microplastics in aqueous matrices,” and local coordinator of a PRIN 2022 project: “INSIDE – In-depth chemical mapping: NIR and XRF spectral imaging for non-invasive 3D analyses.” She has received awards for research activity including: Best Young Researcher Award of the Analytical Spectroscopy Divisional Group (2014). She was a member of the Board of the Division Group of Chemometrics and scientific coordinator of the first national school of chemometrics applied to cultural heritage (2020).