Andrey Bogomolov was born in 1965 in Samara, Russia. In 1983 he entered the Faculty of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), where he obtained his M.Sc. (1988) and then Ph.D. (1993) degrees. Chemometrics and optical spectroscopy have been Andrey’s main areas of professional interest since 1996 when he joined the Moscow division of Advanced Chemistry Development Inc. (Canada) as the manager of several software projects. In 2005, Andrey moved to Germany, where he worked as a researcher at European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Hamburg (2005–07) and then as an industrial scientist at J&M Analytik AG (Aalen, 2007–14), art photonics GmbH (Berlin, 2015–16) and Endress + Hauser Liquid Analysis GmbH + Co (Gerlingen, 2017–20). Since 2014, he also acts as an independent consultant. Dr. Andrey Bogomolov combines his industrial activities as a chemometrician with the position of a senior researcher at Samara State Technical University in Russia.