Jose M. Andrade-Garda is a full professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of A Coruña, Spain since 2011. During his Ph.D. he worked in a refinery as a quality control technician. Currently his main interests are on multivariate data analysis in the environmental and petrochemical fields, mainly IR applications to speed quality control procedures in several manufacturing environments. He has also contributed to novel applications of multivariate modelling (in particular, PLS) to atomic spectrometry. At present, he is focused on microplastics analysis in several environmental matrices and their subsequent spectral identification.