WCSB10 - Key Persons
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Quality Manager Sampling Precious Metals Refining, Umicore Precious Metal Refining Hoboken, Belgium
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Principal
Dominique François-Bongarçon graduated as a Mining Engineer and holds a Doctorate in Mining Sciences and Techniques at the Geostatistics Center from the Paris School of Mines (Paris Tech).
He has more than 40 years of experience in the mining industry and works as a consultant in earth sciences for his own company, AGORATEK International Consultants Inc., based in Canada.
In 1992 he embarked on a career long research in Gy's theory of sampling, and he worked with Pierre Gy as a consultant and on training courses. He then contributed top the onset of the WCSB cycle of conferences and in 2009, he was the recipient of the Pierre Gy Sampling Gold Medal.
In recent times, he has been continuing his research in Sampling Theory, in the techniques and spirit of the QA-QC discipline and on mine-mill reconciliations. He is also currently making new advances in the handling of extreme grades in Geostatistics.
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Fellow of the AusIMM
- Honorary Fellow, Mineral Resources CSIRO, Australia
- Mining / Minerals / Metals
Dr Ralph Holmes obtained BSc and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Melbourne in 1967 and 1972 respectively, and joined CSIRO in November 1971 to work on the application of nuclear techniques to the on-line analysis of iron ore.
Subsequently he also worked on other mineral commodities, including bauxite and coal.
Ralph is a Fellow of the AusIMM (Chartered Professional - Metallurgy), a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and a member of the International Mineral Processing Council (IMPC). He has also been very active in organising technical conferences with the AusIMM and has chaired six international iron ore conferences (Iron Ore 2002, Iron Ore 2005, Iron Ore 2007, Iron Ore 2009, Iron Ore 2011, Iron Ore 2013 and Iron Ore 2015) in Perth and Fremantle, the Second World Conference on Sampling and Blending on the Sunshine Coast in 2005, Sampling 2008, Sampling 2010, Sampling 2012 and Sampling 2014 in Perth, as well as IMPC 2010 (International Mineral Processing Congress) which was held in Brisbane in September 2010. IMPC 2010 was a landmark international event in the history of IMPC as it celebrated its Silver Jubilee. More recently Ralph chaired the Eighth World Conference on Sampling and Blending held in Perth on 9-11 May 2017 and Iron Ore 2017 held in Perth on 24-26 July 2017, and played a key role in establishing the International Pierre Gy Sampling Association of which he is the inaugural Chair.
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Program Manager, European Food Safety Authority ( EFSA ), Parma, Italy
- Programme Manager at the European Food Safety Authority
Dr. Claudia Paoletti is Programme Manager at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) with extensive experience in food and feed safety assessment, and on development of appropriate sampling approaches
She has over 80 contributions as book chapters, or peer-reviewed scientific papers. Claudia Paoletti did her Master in Biological Science at the University of Rome (Italy) and her Ph.D. in Plant Genetics at the University of Connecticut, USA. For the next three years she studied plant population genetics and biometry at Dalhousie University (Canada), continuing at the Research Institute for Industrial Crops in Bologna (Italy) where she focused on the evaluation of risks associated to the use of transgenic crops. She has been the Italian expert nominated by the European Commission, for definition of sampling plans for GMO detection in conventional seeds. She coordinated the European Commission sampling research project KeLDA and she has been the biometrics officer of the EU Community Reference Laboratory for GMOs. She is an expert consultant for ISO/IWA committees, OECD, CEN, the European Commission and FAO. She organised international training courses on sampling of food/feed agricultural commodities for the European Commission, UNIDO, PHARE project and several universities, both within and outside Europe. In January 2006 she joined the GMO Unit of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
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- Member of the Organisational Committee
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- Member of the Organisational Committee
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Principal, Francis Pitard Sampling Consultants LLC, Broomfield, CO, USA
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Principal, Materials Sampling & Consulting, Brisbane, AUS
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- Member of the Organisational Committee
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- Member of the Organisational Committee
- Conference Secretary
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Global Principal QAQC, Resource Centre of Excellence, BHP, Australia
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Professor
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- Data Analyst
- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Head of Committee
- Proceedings Editor
Kim H. Esbensen, a geologist/geochemist/data analyst of training, has been working 20+ years in the forefront of chemometrics, but since 2000 he has devoted most of his scientific R&D and educational outreach to the theme of representative sampling.
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Professor
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Professor of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, USA
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Environmental Scientist, Hawai'I Department of Health, Oahu, USA
- Senior Environmental Scientist With the Hawai'I Department of Health
Roger Brewer is senior environmental scientist with the Hawai'i Department of Health and has worked as a consultant in Asia and South America.
His areas of expertise include field investigations, contaminant fate and transport, and human health and ecological risk assessment.
Since 2005, he has focused on the use Gy's Theory of Sampling to improve the representativeness and reliability of environmental data. His academic background includes a PhD in geology and post-doctoral research at Nanjing University in China.
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Group Practice Leader - Sampling / Resource Development, NOVO Resources Corp, Australia