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Jean-Michel ROGER received his rural engineer degree in 1990 and his PhD in 1995. Since the 90s he has been conducting research in near infrared spectrometry and in chemometrics. His constant concern is to produce simple and operational solutions to implement NIRS to the problems related to the environment and the agriculture. To make the embedded sensors operational, he initially studied the calibration robustness problems. Together with Tom Fearn he thus promoted orthogonalization methods. These methods are now used in practical applications, as calibration transfer or moisture effect correction in NIR based soil characterization. He also studied the variable selection techniques, dedicated to the specific case of NIRS, which allowed him to develop NIR sensors for the agriculture. In 2016 he received the Tomas Hirschfeld Award from the International Committee of NIR spectroscopy. In 2018, he created the chemometrics research pole ChemHouse, which promotes education, research and cooperation about NIRS and chemometrics (http://chemproject.org).