Johan Westerhuis

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Introduction

Johan Westerhuis studied Analytical Chemistry/Chemometrics at the Rijks Hogeschool Groningen where he received his BSc degree in 1989. He then went to the Catholic University of Nijmegen to study Chemistry/Chemometrics in the group of Dr. L.M.C. Buydens, where he received his MSc degree in 1992. From 1992-1997 he worked towards a PhD at the University Centre for Pharmacy at the University of Groningen on Multivariate Statistical Modeling of the Pharmaceutical Process of Wet Granulation and Tableting.

From 1997 until 1998 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada together with Dr. JF MacGregor. In October 1998 he joined the former Process Analysis & Chemometrics group, now the Biosystems Data Analysis group at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Johan Westerhuis is the Editor Europe of the Journal of Chemometrics. The Journal of Chemometrics is devoted to the publication of original scientific papers, reviews and short communications on fundamental and applied aspects of chemometrics. However, it will also deal with the introduction of new data analysis methods in the genomics area. All manuscripts can be submitted electronically at the Journal's website.

Research

The current research focuses on the development of methods for the analysis of complex data obtained from metabolomics studies. Two major data analysis themes in the research are “Chronobiology” in which time-resolved metabolomics measurements are analyzed and “Grey analysis methods” that incorporate prior knowledge into the analysis methods. Furthermore, optimal design of metabolomics experiments together with power calculations and the statistical validation of the analysis results are important topics.

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