Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics

Department

The Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics research group (AC&C) focuses on chemometrics. This is the discipline within chemistry that develops methods to extract relevant information from chemical data. This ranges from simple localisation of data to prediction of, for instance, concentrations or finding biologically interesting molecules in complex mixtures. The department is part of Institute of Molecules and Materials (IMM).

Below are the highlights of the Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics group. View all News, Publications, Projects, Staff, and Vacancies.

Highlights

Grant for Radboud research on failure analysis in semiconductor chips

11 August 2025 Research news item

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a grant to an interdisciplinary research project on failure analysis in semiconductor chips, led by Alexey Kimel.

Smarter recycling: how plastic waste gets a second life

12 May 2025 Research news item

Researchers at Radboud University are developing a method to recycle plastic from household waste more efficiently and on a larger scale. How? By analyzing the chemical ‘fingerprints’ of plastics and optimizing the sorting and recycling processes.

Large consortium led by RU researchers granted for research on sustainable process industry

09 May 2025 Research news item

Topconsortium voor Kennis & Innovatie (TKI) for Energy & Industry granted support to a large consortium to work on the project Carefree Models (CFM).

Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics

Research of the Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics group is centered around two main research philosophies.

Methodological Chemometrics

(Further) development of chemometric methods to tackle new challenges in chemistry and beyond: methodological research on chemometrical techniques like global optimisation methods, and multivariate statistics.

Application Oriented Research

These chemometric methods are applied and validated for pioneering science in chemistry and biology. This encompasses for instance image processing and spectroscopic analysis (NIR, LC-MS/MS) for industrial and medical applications.

Publications

Projects

Industry 4.0 digitization process- and manufacturing

EBI: Engineering Business Intelligence

Research

A novel generation of Industry 4.0 algorithms offers an opportunity for considerable evidence-based value creation in Dutch Process Industry, allowing a more comprehensive and real-time view on process performance.

CareFree Models for real-time decision-making

Research

The CareFree Models project provides a solution by introducing a more efficient and automated approach to model development and maintenance.

Fingerprint 2 Footprint

Research

The Fingerprint 2 Footprint (F2F) project will prepare the application of Handheld Spectrometry Networks (HSN) in diverse process industrial sectors.

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Internships

The Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics group offer various Bachelor's and Master's courses, incidental courses and Bachelor's and Master's internships. Would you like to do your internship at our department? Please view the list of internship subjects and get brigitte.loozen [at] ru.nl (in touch) for more information.

A few examples of relevant subjects are:

Development of quick and non-invasive analysis of potatoes using hyperspectral imaging
The Use of NIR Spectroscopy for Predicting Frying Color in Potatoes
Adaptive model solutions in chemical processes
Monitoring and anomaly detection in the growth of the mushroom
F2F – Handheld spectroscopy & Data Science
Investigating the Impact of Uncertainty in Multivariate Analysis of Operational Data