The Council Management Committee is responsible for the administration of all the business of the Council except when a General Meeting is in session. The elected members of the Council Management Committee (CMC) of ICNIRS consist of the Executive Members who form the Executive Committee, the Conference President for the current ICNIRS Conference, the Conference President for the next ICNIRS Conference and three other members.
The CMC currently comprises the following:
- Executive Committee members (2021-2025)
President: Soren Balling Engelsen
President Elect: Dolores Perez Marin
Immediate Past President: Tom Fearn
Secretary: Sirinnapa Saranwong
Treasurer: Peter Tillman - Conference President for the current ICNIRS Conference
Christian Huck (2021-2023) - Conference President for the next ICNIRS Conference
Federico Marini (2023-2025) - Other members
Satoru Tsuchikawa (2019-2025)
Benoît Igne (2019-2025)
Jose Amigo (2021-2027)
Federico Marini, Conference President for the next ICNIRS Conference (2023-2025)
Professor Marini graduated in 2000 from the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he also obtained his PhD in 2004. During his doctoral studies, he was awarded a three-month Marie Curie fellowship at the National Institute of Chemistry (Ljubljana, Slovenia) under the supervision of Professor Marjana Novic. After four years as a research fellow (2004–2008), in 2008 he was appointed as a Researcher at the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he served as Associate Professor from 2018 to 2021, and since 2021, he is full professor of analytical chemistry. In 2006, he received the Young Researcher Award from the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society, and in 2012, he won the Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems Award “for his significant contribution to the development of chemometrics.” He has been a visiting researcher at various universities (Copenhagen, Stellenbosch, Silesia, Lille) and research institutes (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia; Nofima, Norway; Irstea, France). His research activity focuses on all aspects of chemometrics, ranging from the application of existing methods to real-world problems (in multiple fields) to the design and development of new algorithms. He is the author of over 300 publications, including articles in international journals and book chapters, and in 2013, he edited the book Chemometrics in Food Chemistry (Elsevier). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems and a member of the editorial boards of Analytica Chimica Acta, J. of Chemometrics, J. of NIR Spectroscopy, J.of Spectral Imaging, and Food Control; he is also Associate Editor for Chemometrics in Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. He has served as the coordinator of the Chemometrics group of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society and is currently the Vice President of the Italian Society of NIR Spectroscopy and the coordinator of the Chemometrics Task Group of DAC-EuCheMS.
Email: federico.marini@uniroma1.it
Christian Huck, Conference President for the current ICNIRS Conference (2021-2023)
Christian Huck obtained his doctorate in chemistry in 1998 from the University in Innsbruck, Austria. He is Full Professor in the University of Innsbruck, where he is currently vice-head of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry and head of the Spectroscopy Unit.
He is editor-in-chief for Spectrochimica Acta A (Elsevier) and NIR news (Sage), associate editor for Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (Sage) and several others known journals in the broader field of analytical chemistry. In 2023 he will be chair to host ICNIRS 2023 international conference and is the current vice-president of the Austrian Chemical Society. During the last 15 years Christian received about 15 international awards including Tomas Hirschfeld. Christian has published more than 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts resulting in an h-index of 51 based on more than 9670 citations.
Email: christian.w.huck@uibk.ac.at
Satoru Tsuchikawa, CMC member (2019-2025)
Satoru Tsuchikawa graduated from the School of Agriculture and the Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan, in 1987 and 1989, respectively. His academic career started in 1990 as an Assistant Professor at Nagoya University. He earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences from Nagoya University in 1998. In 2004, he was Professor at Nagoya University. Since 2016, he is Vice Dean at the Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University. His main research area is the application of NIR spectroscopy to wood and various agricultural products. He has been involved in this sort of studies for over 25 years, and published more than 100 papers. He has won several awards, including the Buchi NIR Award (2003) and the PerkinElmer Award (2003). He is secretary-general of Asian NIR Consortium (2013 -) and Japan NIR Consortium (2011 -).
Email : st3842@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Benoît Igne, CMC member (2019-2025)
Benoît Igne has a master’s degree from Ecole d’Ingénieurs de PURPAN, Toulouse, France and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. He began working as a post-doctoral fellow and a program coordinator at the Duquesne University School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. In 2014, he joined GlaxoSmithKline outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. There, he led the development of process analytical technologies for the monitoring, development, and control of solid, liquid, and biopharmaceutical products. His main responsibility was to integrate Near-Infrared spectroscopic tools onto a continuous manufacturing line. In 2019, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where he currently supports and develops the implementation and use of process analytics for a commercial drug product continuous manufacturing line. Benoît received the 2015 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and several books and book chapters. He has been involved with the Council for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy since 2010 and was elected President from 2016 to 2020. Benoît has played various roles in the Society of Applied Spectroscopy including the Membership committee and the Speaker Tour program. Finally, he is the sub-committee Chair for ASTM 55.01, developing standards for the use of process analytics.
Email : igneben@gmail.com
Dr Jose Amigo, CMC member (2021-2027)
Dr. Amigo obtained his PhD (Cum Laude) in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Since 2007, he has been employed at the Department of Food Science of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and also as Guest Professor of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil since 2017. Dr. Amigo’s research interests include NIR hyperspectral and multispectral image analysis in different research fields including Food production, pharmaceutical research, Forensic Sciences, etc. Moreover, he is involved in teaching Chemometrics with well-known PhD course such as Copenhagen School of Chemometrics. He has authored more than 140 publications (110+ peer-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, proceedings, etc.) and given more than 60 conferences and courses at international meetings. Dr. Amigo has supervised or is currently supervising several Masters, Post Docs and PhD students and he is an editorial board member of four scientific journals within Chemometrics, chemical imaging and analytical chemistry. In 2014, Dr. Amigo has receive the “Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems Award” for his achievements in the field of Chemometrics. ICNIRS truly congratulates Jose for his achievement and as the winner of THA 2019.
Email : josemanuel.amigo@ehu.eus
Updated : 28 March 2025