Karl Booksh is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and doctorate from the University of Washington, Seattle, working under Professor Bruce Kowalski at the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry. He was also an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of South Carolina. Prof. Booksh’s primary area of research is chemometrics and machine learning with a current interest in employment of hand-held or portable spectroscopic sensors in process analytical chemistry, environmental analyses, and cultural heritage applications. He has experience in excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy, Raman imaging, laser induced breakdown spectroscopy, and surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. He has authored over 150 papers in these fields. Prof. Booksh has been active in professional societies being named a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. He previously served as President of the SAS and is currently an Associate Editor of Applied Spectroscopy Practica and a member of the SAS Governing Board.