Evelyne Vigneau is Professor of applied statistics at the College of Veterinary Medecine, Food Science and Engineering Nantes Atlantic (Oniris) in France. After her PhD thesis in Oceanography (1988), she joined the statistician team of the food engineering school of Nantes. She received her “Habilitation” (HDR) at the University of Rennes (France) in 2004. Head of Statistics, Sensometrics and Chemometrics (StatSC) laboratory at Oniris, her main research topics is on multivariate data analysis, more specifically clustering of variables, modelisation in presence of highly correlated predictors, multi-block data analysis, applied in the field of food science, sensory analysis, quality control, in relation with consumer sciences or health related issues. She regularly collaborates in national and international multidisciplinary research projects, and has published more than 60 papers in peer review international journals.