Paul Geladi received a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Antwerp in 1979. In 1990, he became associate professor at Umea University, with interests in multivariate calibration, multivariate image analysis and multiway analysis. He was awarded the EAS award for Chemometrics in 2002. Currently he is head of research for NIRCE centered in Umea and Vasa. Paul Geladi has coauthored about 90 scientific papers and some 20 book chapters and has given many invited lectures throughout Europe and North America. He was European editor of Journal of Chemometrics from 1989 - 1995, and has been review