Staff members
Staff members
The positions and research interests of the staff members. In alphabetical order by surname.
Dr Daniele Avitabile
Associate professor (Programme director BSc Mathematics), Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Neuroscience, Pattern formation, Multiple-scale dynamics
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/b97da3e0-80c0-4258-a914-b35f988e82a1/O_Daniele%20Avitabile_groot.png)
Dr Senja Barthel
Assistant professor, Geometric topology and Mathematical chemistry
![Senja Barthel](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/e2936489-88e7-4824-9a77-bf27c298947f/Senja.png)
Dr René Bekker
Associate professor (Programme committee Business Analytics), Operations research, Stochastic processes, Health care
![René Bekker](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/ef59ed3a-cb64-47fc-8540-8078e382b9ec/Rene.png)
Dr Gabriele Benedetti
Assistant professor, Analysis on manifolds: Hamiltonian dynamical systems
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/7fa4603b-7871-4e48-becc-2d10c74cce4f/O_Gabriele%20Benedetti.png)
Prof dr Jan Bouwe van den Berg
Full professor (Head of department), Dynamical systems and PDEs
![Jan Bouwe van den Berg](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/a40cd89f-c788-4401-bb68-1e875a94f634/JanBouwe.png)
Dr Joost Berkhout
Assistant professor, Operations research: Mathematical optimization, Markov chain theory & applications
![Joost Berkhout](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/7a0ec1c4-f0f9-4123-b2c0-9ec8676f9ec6/Joost_Berkhout.png)
Prof dr Sandjai Bhulai
Full professor (Programme director MSc Business Analytics, Director of education), Analytics and Optimization
![Sandjai Bhulai](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/b693f4a5-30c6-4867-b2e4-aecd3e4f06d1/Sandjai.png)
Dr Magnus Botnan
Assistant professor, Algebraic topology: Topological data analysis
![Magnus Botnan](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/04418f0b-34af-40c2-8029-d354ac8a96ae/Magnus.png)
Dr Sander Dahmen
Associate professor (Chair of programme committee Mathematics), Number theory and Formalized mathematics
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/7e9975ff-6c00-41c7-a365-41316a54531e/SanderDahmen.jpg)
Dr Camilla Damian
Research associate, Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/659e942e-d942-4131-9feb-66f8c429c5ac/O_Camilla%20Damian.jpg)
Dr Svetlana Dubinkina
Associate professor, Paleoclimate, Subsurface flow, Pipe flow, Data assimilation, Inverse problems, Numerical methods, Statistical mechanics
![Svetlana Dubinkina](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/32d40c9a-aed8-4567-a2f2-7e468940eae9/Svetlana.png)
Drs Angela Evenhuis
Departmental manager
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/584dab69-5eb3-450a-98a3-360966c921ca/thumbnail_IMG_7133.jpg)
Drs Annemieke van Goor-Balk
Academic advisor, Business analytics internship coordinator
![Annemieke van Goor-Balk](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/a41f1686-118a-4f2c-a3c2-4bf6fc1ce649/Annemieke.png)
Prof dr Mathisca de Gunst
Full professor, Statistics: statistics for life sciences, statistics for networks, applications in neuroscience. Confidential counsellor for the Faculty of Science.
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/621f0554-d694-4dcd-ad6f-6123f8e826ca/O_Mathisca-de-Gunst_2019.jpg)
Rianne de Heide
Assistant professor, Statistics and machine learning: Bayesian learning, hypothesis testing and bandit problems
![Rianne de Heide](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/52aa42ab-b8b4-4523-9e68-f41062fdad1a/O_Rianne%20de%20Heide%202.jpeg)
Dr Rikkert Hindriks
Assistant professor, Statistics, inverse problems, electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional MRI, neural dynamics
![Rikkert Hindriks](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/8de4bd91-3c3e-4412-85bc-3cc95f946b10/Rikkert.png)
Hélène Hiwat-Van Laar
Project Manager for the BeyondTheEdge Project
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/ec272067-0cdd-4de8-b740-b7639d8aaf38/Helene.png)
Dr Renee Hoekzema
Assistant professor, Topology: Invariants of manifolds, applications of topological data analysis
Dr Pol van Hoften
Assistant professor, Algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, Langlands programme, Shimura varieties (in characteristic p)
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/6e75a981-24a1-4279-9aa4-00dbd9953d3a/O_Pol_van_Hoften_2.jpeg?w=2243&h=2705&fit=clip&rect=0,0,2243,2705)
Prof Dr Ger Koole
Full professor, Stochastic operations research: queueing theory, Markov decision chains, reinforcement learning. Service Operations Management: call centers, health care, revenue management
![Ger Koole](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/519cec6a-4642-46d7-bdcf-a989b9d048e3/Ger.png)
Prof dr Ronald Meester
Full professor, Probability Theory: forensic probability and statistics, belief functions, philosophy of probability, spatial random processes
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/73e52f32-a790-4213-95b2-60f359cc3ca5/O_RonaldMeester.png)
Prof dr Rob van der Mei
Full professor, Stochastic operations research, operations management, queueing, stochastic optimisation, nosiness analytics. Emergency response systems, revenue management, transport & logistics, mobility, communication networks, traffic management, cyber-security
![Rob van der Mei](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/e65f7c95-9bba-45df-8512-1aff5163e55d/Rob_mei.png)
Prof dr ir Frank van der Meulen
Full professor (Programme director MSc Business Analytics), Mathematical statistics, statistical inference for stochastic processes, Bayesian computational methods
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/8190331f-e85d-402f-9161-6e520eddbb27/O_Frank%20van%20der%20Meulen.png)
Prof dr Konstantin Mischaikow
Visiting professor, Topological Methods for the Analysis of Dynamical Systems, Computational Topology and Dynamics, Mathematical Biology
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/68284d64-f903-4369-8ff9-1594ab276efe/O_Konstantin%20Misschaikow.jpg)
Dr Fahimeh Mokhtari
Assistant professor, Dynamical systems and Representation theory
![Fahimeh Mokhtari](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/0e3e482e-9dbf-4c69-9ab4-9159315a8d83/Fahimeh.png)
Dr Raffaella Mulas
Assistant professor, Graph theory: networks, combinatorics, spectral theory of graphs and hypergraphs
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/da5a866f-e14f-4636-8f63-41f2df177ff6/O_Raffaella%20Mulas.png)
Prof dr Bob Rink
Full professor, Analysis: Nonlinear dynamical systems, Networks, Hamiltonian systems
![Bob Rink](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/fd644fae-b22f-4dc4-b878-151f0f0e5ed9/Bob_Rink.png)
Dr Thomas Rot
Assistant professor, Topology: (Infinite dimensional) degree theory, Morse theory, orbifold topology, Non-linear analysis: Fredholm theory, Hilbert manifolds, Dynamical systems: Conley theory
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/1799400c-c45f-4deb-9f85-53c453bd470d/O_ThomasRotLarger.png)
Prof dr Rob van der Vorst
Full professor, Dynamical systems and Geometry: Floer homology for braided systems, periodic orbits in symplectic geometry and algebraic structures in dynamical systems
![](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/fd297187-15ae-4451-a3ca-4d24dfe23008/O_Rob%20van%20der%20Vorst.jpg)
Dr Alessandro Zocca
Assistant professor, Stochastics and Operations Research: applied probability, stochastic networks, power systems reliability, rare events simulation
![Alessandro Zocca](https://assets.vu.nl/d8b6f1f5-816c-005b-1dc1-e363dd7ce9a5/dcf5f8f7-eb20-4cfe-b8e9-c7213a97fa28/Alessandro.png)