Dr. Jeremy K. Nicholson is the head of the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London and has held honorary professorships at six universities. Additionally, he held two professorships at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, of which he was elected as an Albert Einstein Honorary Professor in 2014. He is also a founder, director, chief scientist, and chief scientist officer at Metabometrix Ltd. His research interests include spectroscopic and chemometric approaches to the investigation of disturbed metabolic processes in complex organisms.