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Presentation of the lecturers
| Dr. Bjørn Grung is an associate professor in chemometrics at the Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen. After obtaining a degree in chemical engineering at Bergen University College, he received a Master’s degree in chemometrics at the University of Bergen on the subject of model validation. In 1995 he presented his PhD thesis on curve resolution of multicomponent systems, also at UiB. In addition to chemometrics research and teaching at UiB, Grung is an associate professor at the Bergen University College. He has taught at universities in Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. Grung has also worked as a programmer, software developer and consultant for PRS since the mid-90’s. |
| Dr. Frode Brakstad held a Master in Analytical Chemistry (1986) and a PhD on Chemometrics (1994). He has more than 25 years with industrial applications of Smart Manufacturing. Frode received, together with Prof. Olav Martin Kvalheim, in 1996 The Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (NFR) Award for prominent use of research. In addition to his industrial carrier mainly in Norsk Hydro published 11 scientific articles with referee and >30 popular scientific articles, he has held > 80 seminars and invited lectures, has been co-organizer of > 15 conferences, has taken initiative to a number of series of articles, he is chairman of board in two companies and has been chairman of several working groups, chairman of the Norwegian Chemometrics Society, co-writer and editor in the Scandinavian textbook "Practical use of Chemometrics within research and industry"(1996), has been opponents for four Ph.Ds on Chemometrics and sensor of several Master examinations and has been committee member of several society groups. |
| Professor Olav M. Kvalheim is Cand. real (1978) in Quantum chemistry and dr. philos. (1987) in Chemometrics from the University of Bergen, Dept. of Chemistry. He has been working as an R&D consultant in many industrial projects and been involved in supervision, development of courses and teaching of courses in numerous companies. He has been awarded The Norwegian award for young reseachers from The Nansen Foundation (1988), shared the The Norwegian Research Council´s Prize for outstanding use of research with Frode Brakstad (1996), and, received The Herman Wold Gold medallion for outstanding chemometric research (2005) from The Swedish Chemical Society. Kvalheim has been co-editor of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Elsevier (1992-2002) and is presently on the Advisory board of the same journal. He has chaired more than a dozen international conferences and been member of the scientific committee of more than twenty other international conferences. He has also been involved in many evaluation committees, e.g. The 1992 Elsevier Chemometrics Award, The1996 Elsevier Chemometrics Award, and more than 30 committees for assessment of professorships and lecturerships. He has acted as PhD opponent 16 times outside Norway and supervised approx. 25 PhD students and post docs. Kvalheim has published 160 papers in international journals, delivered approx. 90 invited plenary lectures at national and international conferences, and, approx. 60 guest lectures in industry and universities all over the world. |
| Dr. Reidar Arneberg has a MSc in quantum chemistry from the University of Bergen (1980) and has since then been working in various research related positions. This includes both industrial and academic positions, Norsk Hydro Reseach Center for Oil & Gas, Chemical Department of University of Bergen, CIPR - Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research - Bergen, Teknova-Kristiansand and Pattern Recognition Systems. He currently held a position at the research institute Tel-Tek-Porsgrunn. In addition to several internal reports and industrial related projects, he has published around 20 scientific articles with referee, mainly in the area of chemometrics. Together with Olav Martin Kvalheim and associate professor Bjørn Grung, he has developed several multivariate software packages; Sirius, Xtricator, MS Resolver and SirEnviron. His work experience includes fields like, multivariate statistical data analysis (MVDA, DOE, RMS and MSPC), soft sensors and protomics. |
| Geir Nordgaard was educated (siviløkonom) at the Norwegian School of Management, BI. He has specialized in marketing management and operational analysis/industrial economy. After completing his education, he worked with industrial marketing, and was division manager in Bergman Instrumentering AS. During the time as division manager in Bergman Instrumentering, he discovered the need to process the collected production data with use of statistical methods. In 1993 he established GeNor in Forskninsparken AS in Ås. He developed Course i n Statistical Process Control and the first customers were Borregaard Industries and Det Norske Veritas. On the basis of cooperation with Borregaard, Prosessindustriens Landsforening (now Norsk Industri) choosed to take GeNors course in Statistical Process Control (SPC) into their training portfolio. |