Daniel graduated from the Universidad de la Republica (Montevideo, Uruguay) as an Agricultural Engineer in 1989 and obtained his PhD from the University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland) in 1998. His research career started in 1993 with the development of NIR applications for a wide range of agricultural products at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA-Uruguay). In 2002, Daniel joined the Australian Wine Research Institute based in Adelaide, South Australia as a Senior Research Scientist. Here, Daniel was the Team leader of a group investigating applications of rapid methods (Visible, NIR, MIR, UV) in grapes and wines and focused his research in applications of spectroscopy and chemometrics in the wine industry. Daniel has published more than 200 articles in peer reviewed journals. In 2013, he received the Tomas Hirschfeld Award for his outstanding contributions to NIR spectroscopy.