Auteur: Roberto Todeschini

Roberto Todeschini is full professor of chemometrics at the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milano, Italy), where he constituted the Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group. His main research activities concern chemometrics in all its aspects, QSAR, molecular descriptors, multicriteria decision making and software development. President of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry, president of the Italian Chemometric Society and « ad honorem » professor of the University of Azuay (Cuenca, Ecuador), he is author of more than 170 publications in international journals and of the books « The Data Analysis Handbook », by I.E. Frank and R. Todeschini, 1994; and « Handbook of Molecular Descriptors », by R. Todeschini and V. Consonni, 2000. Viviana Consonni received her Ph D in chemical sciences from the University of Milano in 2000 and is now full researcher of chemometrics and chemoinformatics at the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milano, Italy). She is a member of the Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group and has 10 years experience in multivariate analysis, QSAR, molecular descriptors, multicriteria decision making, and software development. She is author of more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals and of the book « Handbook of Molecular Descriptors,  » by R. Todeschini and V. Consonni, 2000. In 2006, she obtained the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry Award for distinguished young researchers and, in June 2009, has been elected as youngest Member of the Academy.