Short CV for Per Bruun Brockhoff, January 2012 (pdf-version)

Professor, Head of Statistics Section
DTU Informatics, Richard Petersens Plads, building 321, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.

Per Bruun Brockhoff is Professor in statistics at the Informatics Department at the Technical University of Denmark

(since 2004), and Head of the Statistics Section (since 2008). He was the Chairman of DSTS, the Danish Society for

Theoretical Statistics (2003-2007), and Chairman of the Sensometrics Society (2006-2010). Professor Brockhoff co-authored around 60 peer reviewed scientific papers with more than 700 citations and 2 books. His H-index is 19 based on Google Scholar and 16 based on ISI Web of Science. The books are both on Sensometrics: Statistics for Sensory and Consumer Science (with T. Næs and O. Tomic, John Wiley Sons, 2010), and Nonparametrics for Sensory Science: A More Informative Approach (with J.C.W. Rayner, D.J. Best and G.D. Rayner, Blackwell Publishing, USA, 2005). He is an Elected member of ISI (2005), was member of the editorial board of international journal Food Quality and Preference (2009-2010) and currently member of the editorial board of the international journal: Journal of Chemometrics. Since 2004 Professor Brockhoff has been involved in numerous externally funded projects (initiating more than one project pr year), supervised 6 PhD projects and co-supervised another 5. Professor Brockhoff has 20 years of academic and industrial teaching experience (involved in more than 70 courses) and supervised more than 20 master projects and during these 20 years been giving on average 3-4 presentations pr. year in all parts of the World – 15 talks during 2010-2011.

Work
Sep 2009 Professor (“permanent”) in Statistics at DTU Informatics, The Technical University, Denmark.
Feb 2008 Head of Statistics Section at Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, DTU, Denmark.
Sep 2004 Professor (“mso”) in Statistics at Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, DTU, Denmark.
May 1997 Associate Professor in Statistics at Department of Mathematics and Physics, The Royal Veterinary
and Agricultural University (KVL), Denmark
Jan 1995 Assistant Research Professor at Department of Mathematics and Physics, KVL
Oct 1991 Research Assistant at Centre for Advanced Food Studies, KVL.

Education

Mar 1995 Ph.D. in Statistics at Department of Mathematics and Physics, KVL.

Sep 1991 Master in Statistics, Department of Theoretical Statistics, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Personal Born 1964 in Vamdrup, Denmark.

Married with Lene Bruun Brockhoff, Head of Match Portfolio and Interest Risk, Tryg, Father of 3 children: Trine (1995), Fie (1998) and Julie (2000).

Projects involving external funding:

1. (Potential): FTP post doc application with Rune H.B.Christensen
2. (Submitted): Towards evidence-based risk management of food allergies,FP7-KBBE-2012-6 (Project partner)
3. EMOTION MEASUREMENT IN FOOD CHOICE: An inversed engineering approach. ESN INDUSTRY NETWORK PARTERSHIP (2010-2012). (Project partner)
4. Food satisfaction – Understanding sensory drivers to eat well and in a sustainable healthy manner (SensWell). DSF Application – 15 mill. DKK, 2010-2015 (Project partner)
5. Optimizing product testing by sensometrics, psychometrics and statistics, Ph.D. project co-financed by Unilever Research, Vlardingen, 2010-2013 (Project leader)
6. In silico ADME classification of chemical (NCE) and biological (NBE) drug candidates. Industrial Ph.D. with Novo Nordic, 2003-2006. (Project leader)
7. Sensometrics, Quality assurance and optimal utilization of sensory profile data. Funded by Direktoratet for FødevareErhverv, 2005-2009. (Project leader)

8. Optimering af formalingsteknologi i cementindustrien. Industrial Ph.D. with IPL, DTU and F.L. Schmidt. 2007-2010 (Project partner)

9. Web based IT programme for prediction of growth of Clostridium Botulinum in meat products. Funded by Direktoratet for FødevareErhverv, 2007-2009. (Project partner)

10. Skræddersyede sensoriske hurtigmetoder til kvalitetsoptimering i kødindustrien, Funded by Direktoratet for FødevareErhverv, 2007-2009. (Project partner)

11. Chemometrics for chain data, Funded by Globaliseringsfonden (within DTU), 2007-2010. (project leader)

12. Commercial post educational courses in statistics, 2004-. (Partner and leader)

13. Norfa summer school, 2005. Marie Curie Summer School, 2008 (Partner in both)

14. ConsumerCheck: Brugervenlig software og statistiske/kemometriske metoder til at kombinere sensorisk og supplerende produktinformation i forbrugeracceptstudier. (Project leader), Supported by Direktoratet for FødevareErhverv.

Research visits

Several smaller visits, 6 months at CSIRO, Autralia 2001 and 7 months, at UC Davis, California, USA, 1993.

Talks 4 invited and/or conference presentations each year 1992-2011

Teaching 20 years experience in developing and giving courses at academic level, industry courses, short courses, summer schools, web-based distant learning courses nationally and internationally. Nominated for the “Teacher of the year award” at KVL in 1998 and at DTU in 2006 and 2008. Awarded IMM teacher of the year 2007.

Project supervision

• Recent and current supervision of 20 IMM master thesis projects and 4 IMM Ph.D. projects:
• Optimizing product testing by sensometrics, psychometrics and statistics., Christine Jochumsen (initiated Nov 2010)
• Sensometrics: Analysis of consumer preference data, Alexandra Kuznetsova (initiated May 2010)
• Sensometrics: Statistical and Thurstonian models, Rune H.B. Christensen (initiated Nov 2008)
• Sensometrics: Quality Assurance and optimal utilization of sensory profile data, Niels Axel Sommer (Oct 2005 – Jan 2009).
• In Silico ADME Classification of Chemical Drug Candidates. (Industrial Ph.D.) B.F. Jensen. (2007).
• Analysis and modelling of chain data. E. Kotwa (initiated Oct 2007)
• Currently co-supervising another 4 PhD Projects:
• Ph.D. project in collaboration with DTU Food: Sammenhænge mellem kost- og aktivitetsvaner blandt danske børn. Berit Rothausen
• Ph.D. project in collaboration with DTU Food: Web based dietary assessments. Anja Biltoft-Jensen.
• Ph.D. project in collaboration with KU Life: Rapid Sensory Methods. Christian Dehlendorff.
• Ph.D. project in collaboration with University of Lavras, Brazil. Sensometrics. Isabel de Sousa Amorim.

Other recent activities

• Member of the ILSI Europe Expert Group on Allergic Reactions Registries, August 2007-January 2009.
• Elected ISI-member (ISI=International Statistical Institute), 7. November, 2005.
• Co-editor of “Sensory Data” special issue of the Journal of Chemometrics, 2005.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chemometrics, 2004-.
• Member of the Editorial Board of Food Quality and Preference, 2009-2010.
• Member of the corps of evaluators (“Censorkorpset”) for both Food Science and Mathematics/Statistics, 2007-2010.
• Chairman of the Danish Society of Theoretical Statistics (DSTS).(www.dsts.dk), 2003-2007.
• Chairman of The Sensometrics Society (www.sensometrics.org), 2006-2010.
• Offering software for analysis of sensory and consumer data
• PanelCheck (www.panelcheck.com)
• R-package sensR (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sensR/index.html).
• Offering online statistics lecture videos – more than 30.000 video views in 2011.

Refereeing manuscripts for

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Food Quality and Preference, American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Chemometrics & Intelligence Laboratory Systems, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences, Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Journal of Chemometrics, BMC Neuroscience.

Academic evaluations (2001-)

International Ph.D. committees, description committee for professor position in chemometrics at KVL, evaluation committees for professor positions in sensory science and chemometrics at KVL, evaluation committees for Ph.D. grants under the Danish Research School in Biostatistics, evaluation committees for the evaluation of two candidates for an associate professor position in statistics at Department of Basic Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Life Sciences, Copenhagen University, for the evaluation of a candidate for an associate professor position in sensory science at Department of Food Science, Faculty of Life Sciences, Copenhagen University, the evaluation of two applicants for an associate professor position in biostatistics at Biostatistical Department, Copenhagen University, the evaluation of two candidates for an assistant/associate professor in Applied Chemometrics and multivariate analysis KU Life, Copenhagen University, the evaluation of four candidates for a professor position in biostatistics at Department of Basic Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Life Sciences, Copenhagen University, the evaluation of one candidate for a adjunct professor position in biostatistics at Aalborg University, the evaluation of a candidate for a part time associate professor position at Clinical Institute, Århus University.