Dr. Kim H. Esbensen

Dr Kim H. Esbensen has been research professor in Geoscience Data Analysis and Sampling at GEUS, the National Geological Surveys of Denmark and Greenland (2010– 2015), chemometrics and sampling professor at Aalborg University, Denmark (2001– 2015), professor (Process Analytical Technologies) at Telemark Institute of Technology, Norway (1990–2000 and 2010–2015). From 2015 he phased out a 35 year academic career for a new quest as consultant and independent researcher (but as he could not live without his love for teaching, he is regularly active as an international visiting, guest and affiliate professor). A geologist/geochemist/metallurgist/data analyst of training, he first worked ~20 years in the forefront of chemometrics, but since 2000 has devoted his R&D to the theme of representative sampling of heterogeneous materials, processes and systems: Theory of Sampling (TOS), PAT (Process Analytical Technology). He is a member of several scientific societies and has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and is the author of a widely used textbook in Multivariate Data Analysis, which was published in its 6th edition in 2018. He was chairman of the taskforce behind the world’s first horizontal (matrix-independent) sampling standard DS3077 (2013), 3.rd. revision published as DS 3077: 2024. In 2020 he published the foundational “Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Sampling” textbook (2nd. ed. in 2025). Since 2013, he was editor of “TOS forum” and Spectroscopy Europe/World “Sampling Column”, which from 2024 amalgamated and metamorphosed into “Sampling Science and Technology (SST)”, with Esbensen as Editor-in-Chief. In 2003 he organised the inaugural World Conference on Sampling and Blending (WCSB), which has since become a global bi-annual event. Esbensen was instrumental in the work leading up to the 2017 establishment of the International Pierre Gy Sampling Association IPGSA). In 2023 he was the first recipient of IPGSA’s Distinguished Service Medal. Esbensen’s homepage can be found here https://kheconsult.com/ and he can be contacted at:  khe.consult@gmail.com