Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lendl received his PhD in Technical Chemistry from TU Wien in 1996. In 2001, he became an Associate Professor at TU Wien and served as a guest professor at the University of Córdoba in Spain from 2003 to 2004. In 2008, he founded the TU Wien spin-off company QuantaRed Technologies, which operated until 2022 and introduced the world’s first QCL-based analyzer for liquid sensing. Since 2011, he has led the research division on Environmental and Process Analytical Chemistry at TU Wien, where he was also appointed Full Professor of Vibrational Spectroscopy in 2016. His current research focuses on advancing Analytical Sciences through the development of novel analytical techniques and instrumentation based on infrared and Raman spectroscopy. These efforts are applied to fields such as environmental and process analytical chemistry, material characterization, and biomedical diagnostics. His work integrates recent advancements from neighboring disciplines, including mid-IR quantum cascade lasers, integrated photonics, and lab-on-a-chip systems, to create innovative laser-based sensing concepts for Analytical Chemistry. To date, he has supervised 30 PhD theses, with 12 more currently in progress. His scientific contributions are documented in more than 340 papers published in international journals, 14 book chapters, and 17 patents. Lendl is the recipient of several awards, including the Norman Sheppard Award of the IRDG (2022), the Agilent Thought Leader Award (2021), the Anton Paar Research Award (2018), the Robert Kellner Lecture DAC (EuCheMS) in 2015, the FACSS Innovation Award (2011), and the Dr. Wolfgang Houska Award (B&C Foundation) in 2008.