Ron Wehrens obtained a PhD in Chemometrics from the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) in 1994. He has held positions as assistant and associate professor at the universities of Twente and Nijmegen. In 2010, he became group leader of the Biostatistics and Data Analysis group at the Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige in Italy. Since 2014 he is Business Unit Manager Biometris at Wageningen University & Research.