The staff members of the Department of Mathematics at VU Amsterdam
Staff members
Staff members
The positions and research interests of the staff members. In alphabetical order by surname.
Daniele Avitabile
Professor (Programme director BSc Mathematics), Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Neuroscience, Pattern formation, Multiple-scale dynamics
René Bekker
Professor (Chair of programme committee Business Analytics), Operations research, Stochastic processes, Health care
Gabriele Benedetti
Professor, Analysis on manifolds: Hamiltonian dynamical systems
Joost Berkhout
Professor, Operations research: Mathematical optimization, Markov chain theory & applications
Sandjai Bhulai
Professor (Programme director MSc Business Analytics, Director of education), Analytics and Optimization
Philip Boeken
Research associate, Mathematical statistics, Causal inference
Magnus Botnan
Professor, Algebraic topology: Topological data analysis
Sander Dahmen
Professor (Chair of programme committee Mathematics), Number theory and Formalized mathematics
Camilla Damian
Research associate, Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes
Svetlana Dubinkina
Professor (Chair of examination board), Paleoclimate, Subsurface flow, Pipe flow, Data assimilation, Inverse problems, Numerical methods, Statistical mechanics
Angela Evenhuis
Departmental manager
Annemieke van Goor-Balk
Academic advisor, Business analytics internship coordinator
Mathisca de Gunst
Retired professor, Statistics: statistics for life sciences, statistics for networks, applications in neuroscience. Confidential counsellor for the Faculty of Science.
Rikkert Hindriks
Professor, Statistics, inverse problems, electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional MRI, neural dynamics
Hélène Hiwat-Van Laar
Project Manager for the BeyondTheEdge Project
Renee Hoekzema
Professor, Topology: Invariants of manifolds, applications of topological data analysis
Ger Koole
Professor, Stochastic operations research: queueing theory, Markov decision chains, reinforcement learning. Service Operations Management: call centers, health care, revenue management
Ronald Meester
Professor, Probability Theory: forensic probability and statistics, belief functions, philosophy of probability, spatial random processes
Rob van der Mei
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
Frank van der Meulen
Professor (Programme director MSc Business Analytics), Mathematical statistics, statistical inference for stochastic processes, Bayesian computational methods
Konstantin Mischaikow
Visiting professor, Topological Methods for the Analysis of Dynamical Systems, Computational Topology and Dynamics, Mathematical Biology
Raffaella Mulas
Professor, Graph theory: networks, combinatorics, spectral theory of graphs and hypergraphs
Stéphanie van der Pas
Professor (Programme director MSc Mathematics), Causal inference, Bayesian statistics, variable selection, survival analysis
Bob Rink
Professor, Analysis: Nonlinear dynamical systems, Networks, Hamiltonian systems
Thomas Rot
Professor, Topology: (Infinite dimensional) degree theory, Morse theory, orbifold topology, Non-linear analysis: Fredholm theory, Hilbert manifolds, Dynamical systems: Conley theory
Hannah Santa Cruz Baur
Research Associate, Applied Algebraic Topology, Machine Learning and Mathematical Neuroscience.
Joris Slootweg
Lecturer
Rob van der Vorst
Professor, Dynamical systems and Geometry: Floer homology for braided systems, periodic orbits in symplectic geometry and algebraic structures in dynamical systems
Alessandro Zocca
Professor, Stochastics and Operations Research: applied probability, stochastic networks, power systems reliability, rare events simulation
