Federica Bianchi is a full professor in Analytical Chemistry at the Dept. of Chemistry, Life Sciences, and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Parma, Italy. Since 2014, she has been director of the postgraduate university course “Quality Control and Quality Management Systems in Testing Labs”. Her main research topics include the development and validation of analytical and bioanalytical methods based on hyphenated techniques in environmental and food analysis and innovation of materials for sample treatment devices and mass spectrometry instrumentation. Her expertise in chemometrics has been widely exploited for data elaboration.