Professional Career

Age Smilde received his MSc in Econometrics at the University of Groningen in 1984. He moved to the Department of Pharmacy in the same city where he did his PhD in Analytical Chemistry. His PhD was on “Multivariate Calibration of Reversed Phase Chromatographic Systems”, and he received his degree in 1990. In the year 1992, he visited the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (Seattle, USA), where he worked together with Prof. Bruce Kowalski.

In 1993, he returned to the Netherlands and in June 1993 became full professor of Process Analysis and Chemometrics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. He has held several part-time positions at TNO Quality of Life, Amsterdam UMC and the Department of Food at the University of Copenhagen while continuing working at the University of Amsterdam. In January 2004, he started the group Biosystems Data Analysis (BDA) at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences at the same university. As of December 2023, he is retired and emeritus-professor at the University of Amsterdam. He still holds a part-time position at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.

He is the Eastern Analytical Symposium 2006 Award Recipient for Achievements in Chemometrics and the recipient of the Herman Wold Gold Medal in 2021. In 1996, he was chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Oxford (UK). Together with Rasmus Bro and Paul Geladi he wrote the book Multiway Analysis: Applications in the Chemical Sciences and together with Tormod Naes and Kristian Liland he wrote the book Multiblock Data Fusion in Statistics and Machine Learning. His CV can be downloaded here.