Professor Richard Brereton, is the Professor of Chemometrics at the University of Bristol, UK. He is head of the Centre for Chemometrics which carries out a variety of research work including forensic science, biological pattern recognition, pharmaceutical sciences, plastics analysis and how data captured from instrumentation should be treated. In 2006 he received the Theophilus Redwood Lectureship from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has published extensively in the literature, including publishing two previous books with Wiley in 2003 and 2007.