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Tormod Næs
NationalityNorwegian
OccupationStatistician
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
Academic work
DisciplineChemometrics

Tormod Næs (born February 11, 1954[citation needed]) is a Norwegian statistician working in chemometrics and sensometrics. He studies multivariate statistical analysis, spectroscopy, food science, and sensory science. His impact on chemometrics is exemplified by the over 8,000 citations to his most well-known book, Multivariate Calibration (with Harald Martens),[1] and the awards in chemometrics that he has received.

Education

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Tormod Næs obtained both his master's degree (1978) and PhD (1984) in statistics from University of Oslo.[2][3]

Career

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For most of his career Næs has worked at Nofima (Norwegian Food Research institute) at Ås, achieving the title of Senior Scientist.[3][4] He has been a professor at the University of Oslo, the University of Copenhagen, and Stellenbosch University.[2] Næs has had four long research and guest professor periods abroad; at University of Washington (Seattle), University of Delaware, University of Genova and University of Firenze.[citation needed]

Næs was member of The Board of Directors, Matforsk (now Nofima) for four years, chairman of the 8th Sensometrics Conference: Imagine the Senses, held August 2006 in Ås,[5][6] chairman of the organising committee for the ‘PLS’07: 5th International Symposium on PLS and Related Methods (September 2007)[7] and chairman of the 16th Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics (SSC16): Chemometrics in Action (June 2019).[8][9]

During his time at Nofima, Næs has been project and task leader of a number of research projects financed by Research Council of Norway and EU (Marie Curie). Among these was "ConsumerCheck," a four-year (2009-2012) international project which involved researchers working in collaboration with Nofima from their home bases in South Africa, Denmark, and the Netherlands.[4] Consumercheck website Næs headed the project "RapidCheck" at Nofima. This was a project which studied rapid method for food producers to test their products and to understand better why consumers eat what they eat.[10] Næs served as the project leader for "Panelcheck" for eight months (September 1, 2007–May 5, 2007).[11] PanelCheck is a well established open source software package of multiple statistical and graphical tools used within the field of sensometrics for performance analysis of trained sensory panels.[12][13] It was developed by researchers at MATFORSK (Norwegian Food Research Institute), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Copenhagen.[14]

Næs has been European editor of Journal of Chemometrics (2003 - 2005)[15] and served as associate editor of Technometrics (2007- 2008).[16] He is currently (as of 2023) on the editorial board of Food Quality and Preference,[17] Journal of Chemometrics[18] and Italian Journal of Applied Statistics (Statistica Applicata).[19][20]

Næs has supervised 24 PhD students to their final degree.[2]

Influence and recognition

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Tormod Næs has a large production of scientific papers and books and has an h-index (as of March 2023) equal to 48 in Web of Science and equal to 66 in Google Scholar.[citation needed] He is particularly known to researchers in chemometrics for his ability to combine multivariate statistics with applied areas in spectroscopy and sensory science, in this way building bridges between these areas.[15]

Næs and Tomas Isaksson received the Thomas Hirshfeld Award in NIR Analysis, given by the International Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy (ICNIRS) to recognize contributions to NIR spectroscopy, in 1997.[21] In their award address, Isaksson spoke about the role of NIR spectroscopy in food quality, and Næs spoke about the use of principal component analysis, least squares regression, and Euclidean distance or Mahalanobis distance in chemometrics.[22]

In 1997 Næs was awarded the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemometrics,[23] an award that recognizes analytical chemists.[24]

In 2012 Næs and coauthors O. Tomic, B. H. Mevik, and H. Martens received the Kowalski Prize from the Journal of Chemometrics for their paper "Path modelling by sequential PLS regression" (2011).[25]

Honors and awards

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  • 1997: Tomas Hirschfeld award in NIR analysis[22] (with Tomas Isaksson)

References

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  1. ^ "[BOOK] Multivariate Calibration H Martens, T Naes - 1992". Google Scholar.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Tormod Næs". NTVA (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Tormod Naes". Nofima. May 26, 2021. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "SU partners with overseas research institute to study 'drivers of liking'" (PDF). Stellenbosch University / Campus News / Kampusnuus (June/July 2009).
  5. ^ "Past Conferences". The Sensometric Society. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  6. ^ Næs, Tormod, ed. (2006). Special Issue: 8th Sensometrics Meeting Matforsk, Norway, [at Ås, Norway During August of 2006]. Elsevier – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Simplified version of conference home page". marcia.iqm.unicamp.br/Mnotes19.html. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  8. ^ "Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics (SSC)". The SSC16 conference. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  9. ^ "Committees". The SSC16 conference. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  10. ^ Boge, Lidunn Mosaker (April 3, 2016). "Learn to taste yourself". Nofima. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  11. ^ "PanelCheck Navigation - News". www.panelcheck.com. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  12. ^ Tomic, Oliver; Kuznetsova, Alexandra; Bruun Brockhoff, Per; Graff, Thomas; Næs, Tormod (January 12, 2022). "ConsumerCheck: A Software for Analysis of Sensory and Consumer Data". arXiv:2201.04020 [cs.HC].
  13. ^ Tomic, Oliver; Luciano, Giorgio; Nilsen, Asgeir; Hyldig, Grethe; Lorensen, Kirsten; Næs, Tormod (2009). "Analysing sensory panel performance in a proficiency test using the PanelCheck software". European Food Research and Technology. 230 (3): 497. doi:10.1007/s00217-009-1185-y. ISSN 1438-2377. S2CID 95322533. Retrieved April 7, 2023 – via Academia.edu.
  14. ^ PanelCheck Manual (PDF). 2006.
  15. ^ a b Brown, Steven (April 2003). "Editorial". Journal of Chemometrics. 17 (4): 199. doi:10.1002/cem.798. S2CID 221550366.
  16. ^ "Front Matter". Technometrics. 50 (1). February 2008. ISSN 0040-1706. JSTOR 25471417 – via JSTOR.
  17. ^ "Editorial Board". Food Quality and Preference. Elsevier. Retrieved March 31, 2023 – via Science Direct.
  18. ^ "Editorial Board". Journal of Chemometrics. John Wiley & Sons. 2023. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  19. ^ "Editorial board". Statistica Applicata (Italian Journal of Applied Statistics). Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  20. ^ "Editorial Team". Statistica Applicata (Italian Journal of Applied Statistics). Elsevier. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  21. ^ "2019 Tomas Hirschfeld Award". Spectroscopy Europe/World. May 7, 2019. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  22. ^ a b Isaksson, Tomas; Næs, Tormod (June 1997). "Tomas Hirschfeld Award: NIR, chemometrics and food quality, a summary of the Tomas Hirschfeld award address 1997". NIR News. 8 (3): 3. doi:10.1255/nirn.415. S2CID 100639763 – via Sage journals.
  23. ^ a b "Previous EAS Award Recipients". Eastern Analytical Symposium. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  24. ^ "2023 EAS Awards". Eastern Analytical Symposium. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  25. ^ a b c "Kowalski Prize". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  26. ^ "2012 Kowalski Prize in Chemometrics". Wiley Analytical Science. July 13, 2012. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  27. ^ "Medlemmer". NTVA (in Norwegian Bokmål). Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
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