Dr. Alessandra Biancolillo currently serves as researcher at the University of L’Aquila (Italy). She obtained her Ph.D. in Spectroscopy and Chemometrics at the University of Copenhagen (KU) in 2016, working on a joint project between KU and the Norwegian Research Institute on Fishery and Food (NOFIMA). She had post-doctoral positions at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and at the IRSTEA institute in Montpellier (France). She was awarded the Young Researcher Prize from the Italian Chemometric Society (2022) and the Young Researcher Prize from the Italian Chemical Society (2023). Her research topics mainly include multi-block analysis, classification method development and feature selection.