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 terminate 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 has been working 20+ years in the forefront of chemometrics, but since 2000 has devoted most of his R&D to the theme of representative sampling of heterogeneous materials, processes and systems: Theory of Sampling (TOS), PAT (Process Analytical Technology) and chemometrics. He is a member of several scientific societies and has published over 250 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 chairperson of the taskforce behind the world’s first horizontal (matrix-independent) sampling standard DS3077 (2013), 3.rd.ed. soon to be inducted as an ISO standard. In 2020 he published the foundational „Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Sampling“. Since 2013, he was editor of TOS forum and Spectroscopy Europe/World „Sampling Column“, from 2024 amalgamated and metamorphosed into „Sampling Science and Technology (SST).

Articles by Kim H. Esbensen

“Critique of Gy’s Sampling Theory”: Misplaced expectations of Wikipedia’s democratic intentions

It‘s Time for Something Different. Sampling Science and Technology (SST): A New Home for TOS forum

10th World Conference on Sampling and Blending (WCSB10)

A critical assessment of the HGCA grain sampling guide

Application of PhotonAssay™ to Coarse-Gold Mineralisation – The Importance of Rig to Assay Optimisation

Barefoot sampling in San Juan de Limay, Nicaragua: remediation of mercury pollution from small scale gold mining tailings

Barefoot sampling in San Juan de Limay, Nicaragua: remediation of mercury pollution from small scale gold mining tailings

Counteracting soil heterogeneity sampling for environmental studies (pesticide residues, contaminant transformation) – TOS is critical

Distributional assumptions in food and feed commodities: how to develop fit-for-purpose sampling protocols?

DS 3077 Horizontal — a new standard for representative sampling. Design, history and acknowledgements

DS3077: Revised 3rd edition (2024)

Estimating total sampling error for near infrared spectroscopic analysis of pharmaceutical blends — theory of sampling to the rescue

Geoff Lyman (1948-2023)

Hidden Cost of Poor Sampling and Reconciliation Practices - Educational Lessons Far Beyond the Mining Industry

High-resolution PAT monitoring of sample preparation grinding by accelerometer sensors: the key to ensuring accuracy and long-term consistency

History of the Pierre Gy Sampling Gold Medal 2003–2015

Ian Devereux and the story of Rocklabs

Improvement practices in process industry — the link between process control, variography and measurement system analysis

International Pierre Gy Sampling Association (IPGSA)

Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Sampling

Journal of AOAC International (JAOAC) Special Issue on Representative Sampling for Food and Feed Materials: A Critical Need for Food/Feed Safety

Origin of the World Conferences on Sampling and Blending (WCSB)

Pierre Gy (1924–2015): a monumental scientific life

Pierre Gy’s development of the Theory of Sampling: a retrospective summary with a didactic tutorial on quantitative sampling of one-dimensional lots

Practical use of variographics to identify losses and evaluate investment profitability in industrial processes

Principles of gas sampling: TOS with critical challenges

Proper sampling for archeometric discrimination of Bronze-age fields on Bornholm, Denmark – Archaeology meets TOS meets Chemometrics

Proper sampling, total measurement uncertainty, variographic analysis & fit-for-purpose acceptance levels for pharmaceutical mixing monitoring

Reducing global mercury pollution with simultaneous gold recovery from small-scale mining tailings

Representative sampling for food and feed materials: a critical need for food/feed safety

Representative sampling in biomass studies — not so fast!

Representative sampling in biomass studies—not so fast!

Sampling errors undermine valid genetically modified organism (GMO) analysis

Sampling in pharmaceutical manufacturing — Many opportunities to improve today’s practice through the Theory of Sampling (TOS)

The 2010 Eyjafjellajökull volcanic ash sampling experiment: factors and conditions affecting field sampling variability

The crucial role of proper sampling in food and feed safety assessment

TOS reflections: is there a third way? (to promote the Theory of Sampling)

TOS vs geostatistics—again?

TOS: Progress through continuity and community

Welcome to the inaugural issue of TOS forum!

News

Welcome to the second issue of TOS forum

A distinct pleasure...

Editorial

From sorrow to moving on… with renewed spirit

It’s time again...

Editorial

Editorial

Editorial: Carrying on… with a special focus on WCSB7

Editorial

Tribute to Ian Michael (1958-2023): Publisher extraordinaire

Tributes to Ian Devereux, 1940–2020

WCSB7 abstracts

WHAT is wrong with this sampler?

When “homogeneity” is expected — Theory of Sampling in pharmaceutical manufacturing