Dr. Joao Lopes is Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Lisbon and coordinates the chemometric & PAT research group of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Porto. He published more than 90 peer-reviewed research papers in the areas of chemometrics, vibrational spectroscopy and process analytics. He coordinated several research projects in the pharmaceutical, agro-food, microbiology and environmental fields.