Tormod Næs

Tormod Næs obtained both his master's degree (1978) and PhD (1984) in statistics from University of Oslo.{{Cite web |title=Tormod Næs |url=http://www.ntva.no/medlemmer/tormod-naes/ |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=NTVA |language=nb-NO}}{{Cite web |title=Tormod Naes |url=https://nofima.com/employee/tormod-naes/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Nofima|date=May 26, 2021 }}

For most of his career Næs has worked at Nofima (Norwegian Food Research institute) at Ås, achieving the title of Senior Scientist.{{Cite journal |date= |title=SU partners with overseas research institute to study 'drivers of liking' |url=https://academic.sun.ac.za/wine_biotechnology/HOME/N%20E%20W%20S.pdf |journal=Stellenbosch University / Campus News / Kampusnuus |issue=June/July 2009}} He has been a professor at the University of Oslo, the University of Copenhagen, and Stellenbosch University. 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|date=April 2023}}

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,{{Cite web |title=Past Conferences |url=https://sensometric.wildapricot.org/conference |access-date=April 1, 2023 |website=The Sensometric Society}}{{Cite book |title=Special Issue: 8th Sensometrics Meeting Matforsk, Norway, [at Ås, Norway During August of 2006] |publisher=Elsevier |year=2006 |editor-last=Næs |editor-first=Tormod |via=Google Books}} chairman of the organising committee for the ‘PLS’07: 5th International Symposium on PLS and Related Methods (September 2007){{Cite web |title=Simplified version of conference home page |url=https://marcia.iqm.unicamp.br/Mnotes19.html |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=marcia.iqm.unicamp.br/Mnotes19.html}} and chairman of the 16th Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics (SSC16): Chemometrics in Action (June 2019).{{Cite web |title=Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics (SSC) |url=https://ssc16.org/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=The SSC16 conference}}{{Cite web |title=Committees |url=https://ssc16.org/scientific-committee/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=The SSC16 conference}}

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. [https://consumercheck.co/ 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.{{Cite web |last=Boge |first=Lidunn Mosaker |date=April 3, 2016 |title=Learn to taste yourself |url=https://nofima.com/results/learn-to-taste-yourself/ |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Nofima |language=en-US}} Næs served as the project leader for "Panelcheck" for eight months (September 1, 2007–May 5, 2007).{{Cite web |title=PanelCheck Navigation - News |url=https://www.panelcheck.com/Home/panelcheck_news |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=www.panelcheck.com |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite arXiv |last1=Tomic |first1=Oliver |last2=Kuznetsova |first2=Alexandra |last3=Bruun Brockhoff |first3=Per |last4=Graff |first4=Thomas |last5=Næs |first5=Tormod |date=January 12, 2022 |title=ConsumerCheck: A Software for Analysis of Sensory and Consumer Data |class=cs.HC |eprint=2201.04020 }}{{Cite journal |last1=Tomic |first1=Oliver |last2=Luciano |first2=Giorgio |last3=Nilsen |first3=Asgeir |last4=Hyldig |first4=Grethe |last5=Lorensen |first5=Kirsten |last6=Næs |first6=Tormod |date=2009 |title=Analysing sensory panel performance in a proficiency test using the PanelCheck software |url=https://www.academia.edu/80473954 |journal=European Food Research and Technology |volume=230 |issue=3 |pages=497 |doi=10.1007/s00217-009-1185-y |s2cid=95322533 |issn=1438-2377 |access-date=April 7, 2023 |via=Academia.edu}} It was developed by researchers at MATFORSK (Norwegian Food Research Institute), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Copenhagen.{{Cite book |url=https://documentation.help/PanelCHECK/documentation.pdf |title=PanelCheck Manual |year=2006}}

Næs has been European editor of Journal of Chemometrics (2003–2005){{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Steven |date=April 2003 |title=Editorial |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cem.798 |journal=Journal of Chemometrics |language=en |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=199 |doi=10.1002/cem.798|s2cid=221550366 |doi-access=free }} and served as associate editor of Technometrics (2007–2008).{{Cite journal |date=February 2008 |title=Front Matter |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25471417 |journal=Technometrics |volume=50 |issue=1 |issn=0040-1706 |jstor=25471417}} He is currently (as of 2023) on the editorial board of Food Quality and Preference,{{Cite journal |title=Editorial Board |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/food-quality-and-preference/about/editorial-board |journal=Food Quality and Preference |publisher=Elsevier |access-date=March 31, 2023 |via=Science Direct}} Journal of Chemometrics{{Cite journal |date=2023 |title=Editorial Board |url=https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/1099128x/homepage/editorialboard.html |journal=Journal of Chemometrics |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |access-date=March 31, 2023}} and Italian Journal of Applied Statistics (Statistica Applicata).{{Cite journal |title=Editorial board |url=https://www.sa-ijas.org/rivista/en/editorial.html |journal=Statistica Applicata (Italian Journal of Applied Statistics) |access-date=March 31, 2023}}{{Cite journal |title=Editorial Team |url=https://www.sa-ijas.org/ojs/index.php/sa-ijas/about/editorialTeam |journal=Statistica Applicata (Italian Journal of Applied Statistics) |publisher=Elsevier |access-date=March 31, 2023}}

Næs has supervised 24 PhD students to their final degree.

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|date=April 2023}} 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.

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.{{Cite web |title=2019 Tomas Hirschfeld Award |url=https://www.spectroscopyeurope.com/news/2019-tomas-hirschfeld-award |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Spectroscopy Europe/World|date=May 7, 2019 }} 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.

In 1997 Næs was awarded the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemometrics, an award that recognizes analytical chemists.{{Cite web |title=2023 EAS Awards |url=https://eas.org/?page_id=2142 |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Eastern Analytical Symposium}}

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).

• 1997: Tomas Hirschfeld award in NIR analysis{{Cite journal |last1=Isaksson |first1=Tomas |last2=Næs |first2=Tormod |date=June 1997 |title=Tomas Hirschfeld Award: NIR, chemometrics and food quality, a summary of the Tomas Hirschfeld award address 1997 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1255/nirn.415 |journal=NIR News |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=3 |doi=10.1255/nirn.415 |s2cid=100639763 |via=Sage journals}} (with Tomas Isaksson)
• 1997: EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemometrics{{Cite web |title=Previous EAS Award Recipients |url=https://eas.org/?page_id=8566 |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Eastern Analytical Symposium}}
• 2004: Kowalski Prize in Chemometrics (with coauthor Ingunn Berget)(Journal of Chemometrics)
• 2006: Kowalski award in chemometrics (J. Wiley and Sons)
• 2006: Honorary member of the Chemometric Society of Norway
• 2012: Kowalski Prize in Chemometrics (with coauthors O. Tomic; B. H. Mevik; and H. Martens) (Journal of Chemometrics){{Cite web |date=July 13, 2012 |title=2012 Kowalski Prize in Chemometrics |url=https://analyticalscience.wiley.com/do/10.1002/sepspec.1387fe25b99/full/ |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Wiley Analytical Science|doi= }}{{Cite web |title=Kowalski Prize |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1099128x/homepage/kowalski_prize.htm |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=Wiley Online Library}}
• 2014: Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences{{Cite web |title=Medlemmer |url=http://www.ntva.no/medlemmer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603190055/https://www.ntva.no/medlemmer/ |archive-date=2023-06-03 |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=NTVA |language=nb-NO}}
• 2023: T [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johan-trygg_chemometrics-hermanwoldmedal-sensometrics-activity-7114977586245480449-TQus/?trk=public_profile_like_view he 16th Herman Wold medal in Gold] from the Chemometrics Division of the Swedish Chemical Society ([https://kemisamfundet.se/ Svenska Kemisamfundet])

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