Dirk Damsma was born on 14 February 1976 in De Bilt, Netherlands. He obtained a master’s degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in economics in 2001 and started teaching economic methodology at the faculty of economics and business immediately after graduation. After working as an economic policy advisor to the socialist party (SP) in the house of parliament in The Hague for some odd 18 months, he decided to return to teaching and scientific research.

Since then, he taught both business students and students of economics ‘philosophy of science’, ‘economic methodology’ and ‘institutional economics’ and has assisted in the teaching of ‘history of economic thought’. In 2007 and 2008 Dirk also worked as a lecturer of (business) economics at an institute for teacher’s education (EHvA). Here he taught financial accounting, business economics, financial arithmetic, decision calculations (using Excel), macroeconomics, international economics, economic modeling, labor law and law of property. In 2010 Dirk was hired by the department of International Business and Management Studies of the Hague University of Applied Sciences to help a crucial module within the minor Sustainable Business back on track. Dirk apparently did this quite well and about a year later he was assigned to work out, implement and manage some radical improvements in all IBMS courses in business and management research methods. At the end of 2012 he taught Research Methods and Perspectives at the master International Relations at Webster University Leiden. Besides his tasks as teacher and thesis coordinator at NNBS, he currently teaches Micro-economics, Thesis Seminars and Economic Methodology at the UvA. On January 9^th 2015 he has successfully defended his PhD dissertation on how Hegelian systematic dialectical insights could improve economic model building.

My dissertation sparked some interest in mathematical circles. As a result, the Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap (Royal Society of Mathematics), interviewed me for the March issue of their periodical Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (New archive for Mathematics):

Hek, Geertje (2015). In de verdediging. In Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 16 (1), 62-64.

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