International team of lecturers
Computational Science (MSc)
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Dr Dick G. van Albada
Dick van Albada is a lecturer in Computer Science. He obtained his PhD in Astronomy at Leiden University. He teaches the courses in Operating Systems and in Modelling and Simulation in the Bachelor's programme in Computer Science. Together with Robert Belleman, he is responsible for the Bachelor's thesis projects. In the Computational Science Master's programme he is involved in the "Introduction to Computational Science" and "Stochastic Simulation" courses.
Dr Robert Belleman
Belleman is senior researcher at the Computational Science group and head of the Scientific Visualisation and Virtual Reality group. He obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Amsterdam for his work on Interactive Distributed Exploration Environments. He currently participates in several joint projects where he works on distributed problem solving environments, interactive scientific visualisation environments, human-computer interaction paradigms and interactive graphics displays.
Prof. Gusz Eiben
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Prof. Alfons G. Hoekstra
Holds a Ph.D. in Computational Science from the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on multi-scale modelling and simulation, complex systems, high performance computing, and applications thereof in the biomedical domain. He has an extended track record in teaching to both undergraduate and graduate students in Computational Science, Computer Science and related disciplines.
Prof. Jaap Heringa
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Dr Jaap Kaandorp
Completed a MSc in Biology and a PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics. Currently he works as an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are: morphogenesis, marine sessile organisms, evolutionary processes, modelling and simulation of genomic regulatory networks, biomechanics and self-organisation in complex systems.
Dr Drona Kandhai
Drona is Head of the Front-Office Amsterdam Quantitative Analytics Group of ING Bank. He is also an assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Section Computational Science in the field of Computational Finance. He has been active in the financial industry, in the domain of Quantitative Analytics, for roughly 10 years. He has worked for ABN AMRO prior to joining ING. In the past years, he has been working on validation of pricing and risk models for a wide range of financial derivatives. Currently, he is quite active in the development of advanced models for several recently introduced risk and valuation measures such as credit valuation adjustment and incremental risk charge. Drona Kandhai holds a PhD in Computational Physics from the University of Amsterdam. His PhD research focused on numerical modeling and simulation of fluid flow in complex geometries.
Dr Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya
Krzhizhanovskaya is a Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam and an Associate Professor at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (StPSPU) and ITMO University, Russia. Valeria holds a PhD degree in Computational Science from UvA and MSc in Applied Mathematics and Physics from StPSPU. Valeria is involved in the courses on Scientific Computing,Complex Systems Simulation and The Finite Element Method, Modelling Real World Problems at AUC, and a few courses in Russian universities (on optimization, automatic control, modelling and simulation in science and engineering). She is an expert in modeling and simulation of multiscale complex systems, data-driven modelling, artificial intelligence, decision support and early warning systems, high performance parallel and distributed computing on Grids and Clouds, problem solving environments and ICT.
Dr Michael Lees
Dr. Michael Lees is an Assistant Professor in the Computational Science group at the University of Amsterdam. Within the Computational Science Master’s program he is responsible for teaching the course Complex System Simualtion. His research interests are primarily in modelling and simulation of large-scale complex systems. Generally his interest is in understanding the effect that human behaviour has on such systems and the important role that individual behavioural interactions have on system level dynamics. His applications of choice include human crowds and egress, social contact networks and traffic and transportation systems. Prior to arriving in Amsterdam he spent 4 years as an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He has a bachelor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, UK and his PhD “Adaptive Optimistic Simulation of Multi-Agent Systems” from the University of Nottingham, UK. For more information about Michael, please see link below.
Prof. Peter M.A. Sloot
Received a double MSc in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam and did his BioComputing PhD at the Dutch Cancer Institute. Afterwards, he hheld various postdoc positions in the USA and ASIA. Sloot has been a professor of Computational Sciences at the University of Amsterdam since 1996. His research focuses on modeling and simulation of multi-scale complex systems.
Prof. Rob Stevenson
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