Michael Greenacre is a Senior Talent Professor of Statistics in the Department of Economics and Business at the UPF, and teaching an annual course in Advanced Statistical Methods in the Barcelona School of Management. Previously he taught a course in statistics in the Health Economics master, as well as a course in Data Visualization, in the Barcelona School of Economics.

He is the author of six books, co-editor of four more and his book Correspondence Analysis in Practice has been translated into Spanish and Japanese. He has published more than 100 articles in international journals and more than 20 chapters in edited books.  He has been invited to write reviews in several scientific Encyclopaedias as well as a review of Compositional Data Analysis for the journal Annual Reviews of Statistics and its Application. He recently led a group of six authors to write an invited review of Principal Component Analysis for the new Nature journal, Nature Reviews Methods Primers.

He has a long experience of working in different applied fields: mostly in sociology and ecology, and more recently in biochemistry, geochemistry and the various branches of “omics” (e.g., the study of the genome and microbiome). For more than 25 years he has been an active researcher in the ecology of the Arctic, and has given courses to marine biologists in Tromsø, north Norway, as well as the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany.

He is also an accomplished musician, both a pianist and guitarist, and has played in many public venues during his travels and stays abroad, as well as in Spain. He has two published albums of his own music, mostly recorded with the singer Gurdeep Stephens, as well as The Millennium Song, published in over 80 translations, of which 11 have been recorded as part of his Global Song project. The CD of this song in English and the four languages of Spain was the official 10th anniversary gift of the UPF, in 1999.

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