Researchers

Our researchers are experts in a range of disciplines, encompassing business analytics, digital humanities, informatics, life sciences and social sciences. Within these disciplines, we focus our applications specifically related to the Dutch top sectors: city analytics, creative industry, energy, health, intelligence and security, and logistics.

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Sanne Abeln

Assistant Professor Bioinformatics - VU s.abeln@vu.nl
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Modelling
  • Data Analytics
  • Data Stewardship

Pieter Adriaans

AAA Project Leader - UvA P.W.Adriaans@uva.nl
  • Artificial intelligence
  • information and computation interactions
  • Machine Learning
  • Philosophy of information

Hamideh Afsarmanesh

Professor Computer Science - UvA h.afsarmanesh@uva.nl
  • Federated Collaborative Databases
  • Semantic Information Modelling
  • Virtual Organisations

Zeynep Akata

Assistant Professor, UvA Z.Akata@uva.nl
  • computer vision
  • Deep learning

Lora Aroyo

Creative Industry - Professor of Computer Science - VU lora.aroyo@vu.nl
  • CULTURAL HERITAGE
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • recommendation systems
  • User Centered Data Science
  • Web Semantics

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Henri Bal

ADS Advisory Board - Professor of Computer Science - VU h.e.bal@vu.nl
  • Computing Infrastructures
  • High Performance Distributed Computing
  • Web Semantics

Sandjai Bhulai

Professor of Business Analytics - VU s.bhulai@vu.nl
  • dynamic pricing
  • human resource analytics
  • Operational Research
  • social media analytics
  • statistics

Peter Bloem

AAA Postdoc - VU p.bloem@vu.nl
  • Complex systems
  • Deep learning
  • Graph grammars
  • Knowledge graphs
  • Motif extraction

Rens Bod

AAA Project Leader - Professor of Digital Humanities - UvA L.W.M.Bod@uva.nl
  • computational literary studies
  • computational musicology
  • digital aesthetics
  • natural language cognition

Victor de Boer

Assistant Professor - VU v.de.boer@vu.nl
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Knowledge Representation
  • semantic web

Sander Bohte

ADS Research Project - Scientific Staff Member - CWI S.M.Bohte@cwi.nl
  • computational neuroscience
  • Deep learning
  • High Performance Distributed Computing
  • Neural networks

Peter Boncz

ADS Advisory Board - Database Architectures Group & Management Team - CWI - Professor of Large-Scale Analytical Data Management - VU P.Boncz@cwi.nl
  • Database Architectures

Hans Borgman

Professor of Information Systems and Digital Business - UvA h.p.borgman@uva.nl
  • Digital Innovation
  • IT Governance
  • Technology Adoption

Herbert Bos

Professor of Computer Systems - VU HerbertB@cs.vu.nl
  • Reverse Engineering
  • System Security
  • vulnerabilities in binary software

Peter Bosman

Senior Researcher - CWI Peter.Bosman@cwi.nl
  • deformable image registration
  • evolutionary algorithms
  • Machine Learning
  • multi-objective optimisation
  • radiotherapy treatment planning

Peter Boswijk

ADS Advisory Board - Professor of Financial Econometrics - UvA H.P.Boswijk@uva.nl
  • Econometric Applications of Machine Learning
  • High-Frequency Data
  • Risk Management

Serge ter Braake

AAA Postdoc - UvA-VU sergeterbraake@gmail.com
  • heterogeneous data analysis
  • historical perspectives
  • History
  • tool criticism

Bert Bredeweg

Associate Professor - UvA B.Bredeweg@uva.nl
  • Artificial intelligence in education
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Qualitative Reasoning
  • Valorisation

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Davide Ceolin

Scientific Staff Member - Information Access - CWI Davide.Ceolin@cwi.nl
  • Data quality
  • deep data
  • trust
  • web data

Pablo Cesar

Group Lead - CWI P.S.Cesar@cwi.nl
  • Immersive Media
  • multimedia systems
  • Quality of Experience
  • Sensing Technology

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Yuri Demchenko

Senior Researcher - UvA y.demchenko@uva.nl
  • Big Data Architecture
  • Big Data Security
  • Cloud Computing

Willemijn van Dolen

Professor of Marketing - UvA W.M.vanDolen@uva.nl
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Marketing
  • social media analysis
  • Social services to children

Elenna Dugundji

Senior Researcher - CWI-VU e.r.dugundji@cwi.nl
  • Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
  • Freight Logistics
  • Stochastic Modelling
  • Transportation and Mobility Systems
  • Travel Behaviour

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Gusz Eiben

Professor of Computational Intelligence - VU a.e.eiben@vu.nl
  • Adaptive Collective Systems
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Artificial Life
  • Evolutionary Computing
  • evolutionary robotics

Iwan de Esch

AAA Project Leader - Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry - VU i.de.esch@vu.nl
  • Biocomputational Chemistry
  • drug innovation

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Anton Feenstra

Assistant Professor Bioinformatics - VU Feenstra@chem.vu.nl
  • Bioinformatics
  • STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
  • systems biology

Frans Feldberg

AAA Project Leader - Professor of Data-Driven Business Innovation - VU j.f.m.feldberg@vu.nl
  • Data-Driven Business Model Innovation
  • decision support systems
  • Digital Innovation

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Zeno Geradts

Professor by Special Appointment - UvA z.geradts@uva.nl
  • Forensic data science

Theo Gevers

Professor of Computer Vision - UvA th.gevers@uva.nl
  • computer vision
  • Deep learning
  • emotion recognition
  • object recognition

Peter Grünwald

Machine Learning Group Lead - CWI Peter.Grunwald@cwi.nl
  • Deep learning
  • information theory
  • minimum description length
  • statistics

Chris de Graaf

AAA Project Leader - Assistant Professor Medicinal Chemistry - VU c.de.graaf@vu.nl
  • computational medicinal chemistry
  • molecular pharmacology
  • protein-ligand interactions

Clemens Grelck

University Lecturer - UvA c.grelck@uva.nl
  • computer architecture
  • green ICT
  • High Performance Distributed Computing

Paola Grosso

Assistant Professor - UvA p.grosso@uva.nl
  • Computing Infrastructures
  • green ICT
  • Optical Networking

Jonne Guyt

Assistant Professor - UvA j.y.guyt@uva.nl
  • Individual level choice models
  • Marketing
  • retailing
  • scanner panel

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Lynda Hardman

ADS Management Team Chair - Information Access Group - CWI, Professor of Multimedia Discourse Interaction - UU Lynda.Hardman@cwi.nl
  • Digital Media
  • Information Access
  • Linked Data
  • Visualisation

Frank van Harmelen

AAA Programme Director - Professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning - VU frank.van.harmelen@cs.vu.nl
  • Artificial intelligence
  • information systems
  • Knowledge Representation
  • semantic web

Jaap Heringa

ADS Management Team - Professor of Bioinformatics - VU j.heringa@vu.nl
  • Bioinformatics
  • genome analysis
  • network analysis
  • sequence analysis
  • systems biology

Robert van den Hoed

Lecturer Energy & Innovation - AUAS r.van.den.hoed@hva.nl
  • green ICT
  • Infrastructures
  • Urban technology

Alfons Hoekstra

Associate Professor - UvA A.Hoekstra@uva.nl
  • computational science

Rutger Hofman

ADS Assignment - Infrastructures - Research programmer - VU rutger@cs.vu.nl
  • Computing Infrastructures
  • High Performance Distributed Computing
  • Machine Learning

Laura Hollink

ADS Research Project - Scientific Staff Member - CWI l.hollink@cwi.nl
  • Digital Media
  • Linked Data
  • Usage data

Mark Hoogendoorn

AAA Project Leader - Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence - VU m.hoogendoorn@vu.nl
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • personalised therapies
  • predictive modelling for diseases

Zhisheng Huang

Senior Researcher - VU zhg300@vu.nl
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Knowledge Representation
  • semantic web

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Alexandru Iosup

Professor in Massivizing Computer Systems - VU A.Iosup@vu.nl
  • Cloud Computing
  • data management systems architectures
  • High Performance Distributed Computing

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Bart A. Kamphorst

AAA Postdoc - VU - Philips Healthcare b.a.kamphorst@vu.nl
  • Behaviour Change
  • E-Coaching Systems
  • ehealth
  • Machine Learning
  • Population Health

George Kanev

AAA PhD Student - VU g.k.kanev@vu.nl
  • Bioinformatics
  • Cancer research
  • Chemogenomics
  • Chemoinformatics
  • Machine Learning

Evangelos Kanoulas

Programme Manager of ADS MSc - Professor in the Department of Operations Management - UvA e.kanoulas@uva.nl
  • Information Retrieval
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Text mining
  • Web search

Martin Kersten

Fellow - CWI - Professor - UvA Martin.Kersten@cwi.nl
  • Database Architectures
  • query optimisation

Gunnar Klau

Research Group Leader - CWI - Professor - VU gunnar.klau@cwi.nl
  • Bioinformatics
  • Combinatorial Algorithms
  • Computational Biology
  • Network Biology

Michel Klein

Assistant Professor of AI - VU michel.klein@cs.vu.nl
  • Artificial intelligence
  • behavioural data
  • intelligent self-management systems

Sander Klous

ADS Assignment - Connections with Business - Professor in Big Data Ecosystems UvA - KPMG s.klous@uva.nl
  • Big data
  • data processing technologies
  • High Performance Distributed Computing

Umut Konus

Associate Professor of Marketing and Digital Business - UvA U.Konus@uva.nl
  • Attribution Models
  • Choice Models
  • Customer Journeys
  • Mobile and Online Marketing
  • Omnichannel Marketing

Ger Koole

ADS Advisory Board - Professor in Business Analytics - VU ger.koole@vu.nl
  • Applied Probability
  • Stochastic Optimisation

Wouter M. Koolen

Scientific Staff Member - Machine Learning Group - CWI wmkoolen@cwi.nl
  • Bandits
  • Deep learning
  • Game Theory
  • Learning Theory

Ben Krose

Professor in Digital Health - AUAS-UvA b.j.a.krose@hva.nl
  • Ambient robotics
  • Digital Life
  • distributed camera surveillance
  • human-robot interaction
  • visual navigation

Benno Kruit

AAA PhD - PhD Student - CWI-VU B.B.Kruit@cwi.nl
  • Database Architectures

Tobias Kuhn

Assistant Professor - VU kuhntobias@gmail.com
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • natural language
  • semantic web

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Cees de Laat

Professor System and Network Engineering - UvA delaat@uva.nl
  • Computing Infrastructures

Patricia Lago

ADS Postgraduate Education and Internal Connections - Professor Software & Services - VU p.lago@vu.nl
  • cloud migration
  • Green IT and Sustainability management
  • Service oriented architecting
  • software engineering

Inger Leemans

AAA Project Leader - Professor of Cultural History - VU i.b.leemans@vu.nl
  • CULTURAL HERITAGE
  • data perspectives
  • deep data representation
  • historical perspectives

Mike Lees

Assistant Professor - UvA m.h.lees@uva.nl
  • Artificial intelligence
  • computational science
  • Multi-agent systems

Edo Roos Lindgreen

Professor of Data Science in Auditing, UvA Roos.Edo@kpmg.nl
  • Auditing
  • information security
  • privacy

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Hannes Mühleisen

Scientific Staff Member - CWI & Assistant Professor - VU Hannes.Muehleisen@cwi.nl
  • Database Architectures
  • statistics

Ivano Malavolta

Assistant Professor - VU ivanomalavolta@gmail.com
  • mobile-enabled systems
  • Model-Driven Engineering
  • software architecture
  • software engineering for robotics

Stefan Manegold

ADS Assignment - Database Management - Scientific Staff Member - CWI Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl
  • Database Architectures

Maarten Marx

ADS Research Project - UvA M.J.Marx@uva.nl
  • political data

Masoud Mazloom

AAA Postdoc - UvA m.mazloom@uva.nl
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Machine Learning
  • multimedia analysis
  • social media analysis

Rob van der Mei

R&D Manager CWI, Professor at VU R.D.van.der.Mei@cwi.nl
  • analysis of communication networks
  • Logistics
  • Networks and Algorithms
  • Performance Modelling
  • Stochastics

Roeland Merks

Scientific Staff Member - CWI - Professor of Multiscale Mathematical Biology - ULeiden Roeland.Merks@cwi.nl
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Multiscale Mathematical Biology
  • systems biology

Christof Monz

Associate Professor - UvA c.monz@uva.nl
  • Machine translation
  • Text mining

Joris Mooij

Assistant Professor - UvA J.M.Mooij@uva.nl
  • approximate inference
  • causal discovery
  • Deep learning

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Peter Neijens

AAA Project Leader - Professor of Media and Persuasion - UvA P.C.Neijens@uva.nl
  • persuasive communication

Sabine Niederer

ADS Advisory Board - Director of CREATE-IT - AUAS s.m.c.niederer@hva.nl
  • Citizen Empowerment
  • data visualisation
  • Digital Media

Julia Noordegraaf

AAA Project Leader - Professor of Digital Heritage - UvA J.J.Noordegraaf@uva.nl
  • digital heritage

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Jacco van Ossenbruggen

ADS Research Project - Group Leader - CWI Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl
  • CULTURAL HERITAGE
  • Information Access
  • Linked Data
  • Web Semantics

Martijn van Otterlo

AAA Postdoc - VU m.van.otterlo@vu.nl
  • Ethics of algorithms
  • High-level activity recognition
  • human-robot interaction
  • Knowledge Representation
  • visual perception

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Eric Pauwels

ADS Assignment - Energy - Group Leader - CWI Eric.Pauwels@cwi.nl
  • Intelligent Systems

Nanda Piersma

ADS Management Team - Professor by special appointment Urban Analytics - AUAS-CWI n.piersma@hva.nl

Andy Pimentel

Associate Professor - UvA A.D.Pimentel@uva.nl
  • embedded systems
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Multi- and manycore computer systems
  • System exploration and optimisation

Marijn Plomp

Assistant Professor & Programme Manager - VU m.g.a.plomp@vu.nl
  • Chain digitisation
  • Chain-Computerisation

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Hajo Reijers

Professor in Business Informatics - VU h.a.reijers@vu.nl
  • business process improvement
  • business process management
  • conceptual modelling
  • workflow technology

Maarten de Rijke

AAA Programme Director - Professor of Information Retrieval - UvA M.deRijke@uva.nl
  • Information Retrieval
  • Search Engines
  • Text mining

Stevan Rudinac

Assistant Professor - UvA s.rudinac@uva.nl
  • computer vision
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Visualisation
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimedia Analytics

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Marc Salomon

ADS Management Team - Professor in Decision Sciences - UvA M.Salomon@uva.nl
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Business Economics
  • Operational Research

Alexander Schönhuth

CWI Alexander.schönhuth@cwi.nl
  • Bioinformatics
  • Cancer Systems Biology
  • Computational Genomics
  • Statistical Modelling
  • Structural Variant Discovery

Stefan Schlobach

Associate Professor - VU k.s.schlobach@vu.nl
  • Knowledge Representation
  • semantic web

Guus Schreiber

Professor of Computer Science - VU guus.schreiber@vu.nl
  • Linked Data
  • Multimedia Analytics
  • Web Semantics

Peter Sloot

Professor of Computational Science - UvA P.M.A.Sloot@uva.nl
  • biomedicine
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • computational science

Arnold Smeulders

Director of QUVA Lab - UvA A.W.M.Smeulders@uva.nl
  • computer vision
  • content-based image
  • Intelligent Systems
  • multimedia information processing
  • video retrieval

Age Smilde

AAA Project Leader - Professor of Biosystems Data Analysis - UvA A.K.Smilde@uva.nl
  • systems biology

Cees Snoek

Professor of Intelligent Sensory Information Systems - UvA cgmsnoek@uva.nl
  • Artificial intelligence
  • image retrieval
  • Intelligent Systems
  • video retrieval
  • Web Semantics

Chantal van Son

AAA Project PhD Student - VU c.m.van.son@vu.nl
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Language Processing
  • Lexicons and Ontologies
  • Machine Learning
  • Opinion mining

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Annette ten Teije

ADS Health Assignment - Associate Professor Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - VU annette@cs.vu.nl
  • formalisation of medical knowledge
  • Healthcare Information Management
  • Healthcare quality indicators
  • Medical Guidelines

Bas Teusink

AAA Project Leader - Professor in Systems Bioinformatics - VU bas.teusink@vu.nl
  • Bioinformatics
  • systems biology

Damian Trilling

AAA Project Leader - Assistant Professor Political Communication and Journalism - UvA d.c.trilling@uva.nl
  • Big data
  • computational social science
  • personalised communication
  • political communication

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Niek van Ulzen

Programme & Data Manager - Physical Activity, Sport & Nutrition - AUAS n.r.van.ulzen@hva.nl
  • data manager
  • ehealth
  • sports analytics

Jacopo Urbani

AAA Project Leader - Assistant Professor of Computer Science - VU jacopo@cs.vu.nl
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Linked Data

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Ana Varbanescu

Assistant Professor - Computer Systems Architecture - UvA A.L.Varbanescu@uva.nl
  • Computing Infrastructures

Bob van de Velde

AAA Postdoc - UvA R.N.vandeVelde@uva.nl
  • Big data
  • Cross-media studies
  • Opinion mining
  • Political bias detection
  • Social dynamics

Piek Vossen

AAA Project Leader - Professor of Computational Lexicology - VU piek.vossen@vu.nl
  • Computational Lexicon
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Language Technology
  • Ontologies
  • WordNets

Claes de Vreese

AAA Project Leader - Professor of Political Communication - UvA c.h.devreese@uva.nl
  • media exposure measures
  • personalised communication
  • Political bias detection
  • political journalism

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Tom Würdinger

AAA Project Leader - Co-director Neuro-oncology Research - VUmc t. wurdinger@vumc. nl
  • Cancer genomics
  • Cancer research
  • neuro-oncology

Martijn de Waal

ADS Cities Assignment - AUAS/HvA b.g.m.de.waal@hva.nl

Qingchen Wang

AAA PhD Student - UvA-ORTEC qingchen.wang@ortec.com
  • customer journey
  • Marketing Analytics
  • marketing optimisation
  • multi-channel attribution
  • online advertising

Max Welling

ADS Advisory Board - Professor in Machine Learning - UvA M.Welling@uva.nl
  • Big data
  • Deep learning

Bart Westerman

AAA Project Leader - VUmc a.westerman@vumc.nl
  • Cancer genomics
  • Cancer research
  • oncogenes
  • transcriptomics

Marcel Worring

Professor Business Analytics - Associate Professor Informatics - UvA M.Worring@uva.nl
  • Information Visualisation
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Multimedia Analytics

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Robert Zwitser

Assistant Professor - Psychological Methods Group - UvA r.j.zwitser@uva.nl
  • behavioural data science
  • differential item functioning
  • multistage testing
  • statistical models for educational assessment