Researchers

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Laatst bijgewerkt: 8 december 2025

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

Associate Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Modelling
  • Data Analytics
  • Data Stewardship
  • Health

Benny Akesson

Professor by Special Appointment of Design Methodologies – UvA
[email protected]

  • Model-based engineering
  • real-time systems

Abdallah El Ali

Scientific Staff Member – CWI
[email protected]

  • Affective Computing
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Sensing Technology

Yuki Asano

Assistant professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • computer vision
  • Multi-modal learning
  • Self-supervised Learning

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Henri Bal

Professor of Computer Science – VU
[email protected]

  • Computing Infrastructures
  • High Performance Distributed Computing
  • Web Semantics

Kim Baraka

Assistant professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • human-robot interaction
  • Machine Learning
  • Social Robotics

Emmanuelle Beauxis-Aussalet

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Ethical Computing

Adam Belloum

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Data centric computing

Sandjai Bhulai

Professor of Business Analytics – VU
[email protected]

  • dynamic pricing
  • human resource analytics
  • Operational Research
  • social media analytics
  • statistics

Peter Bloem

Postdoc in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning – VU
[email protected]

  • Complex systems
  • Deep learning
  • Graph grammars
  • Knowledge graphs
  • Motif extraction

Victor de Boer

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Knowledge Representation
  • semantic web

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Sander Bohte

Scientific Staff Member – CWI | Professor of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience – UvA
[email protected]

  • computational neuroscience
  • Deep learning
  • High Performance Distributed Computing
  • Neural networks

Peter Boncz

Supervisory Board – ADS | Database Architectures Group, Management Team – CWI | Professor of Large-Scale Analytical Data Management – VU
[email protected]

  • Database Architectures

Hans Borgman

Professor of Information Systems and Digital Business – UvA
[email protected]

  • Digital Innovation
  • IT Governance
  • Technology Adoption

Herbert Bos

Professor of Computer Systems – VU
[email protected]

  • Reverse Engineering
  • System Security
  • vulnerabilities in binary software

Evert Bosdriesz

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Bioinformatics
  • Biomedical data analytics
  • Computational Biology
  • Health
  • network analysis
  • systems biology

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Peter Bosman

Senior Researcher – CWI
[email protected]

  • deformable image registration
  • evolutionary algorithms
  • Health
  • Machine Learning
  • multi-objective optimisation
  • radiotherapy treatment planning

Peter Boswijk

Professor of Financial Econometrics – UvA
[email protected]

  • Econometric Applications of Machine Learning
  • High-Frequency Data
  • Risk Management

Bert Bredeweg

Associate Professor – UvA | Professor of Science Education – AUAS
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence in education
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Qualitative Reasoning
  • Valorisation

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Davide Ceolin

Scientific Staff Member – CWI, Human-Centered Data-Analytics
[email protected]

  • Data quality
  • deep data
  • trust
  • web data

Pablo Cesar

Group Leader – CWI, Distributed and Interactive Systems | Associate Professor – TU Delft
[email protected]

  • Immersive Media
  • multimedia systems
  • Quality of Experience
  • Sensing Technology

Michael Cochez

Assistant Professor – VU CS
[email protected]

  • Graphic Learning
  • Knowledge graphs
  • Machine Learning

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Yuri Demchenko

Senior Researcher – UvA
[email protected]

  • Big Data Architecture
  • Big Data Security
  • Cloud Computing

Willemijn van Dolen

Professor of Marketing – UvA ABS
[email protected]

  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Marketing
  • social media analysis
  • Social services to children

Leo Dorst

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Geometric algebra
  • Image measurement

Elenna Dugundji

Researcher – CWI | Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
  • Freight Logistics
  • Stochastic Modelling
  • Transportation and Mobility Systems
  • Travel Behaviour

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Gusz Eiben

Professor of Computational Intelligence – VU
[email protected]

  • Adaptive Collective Systems
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Artificial Life
  • Evolutionary Computing
  • evolutionary robotics

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Anton Feenstra

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Bioinformatics
  • Health
  • STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
  • systems biology

Frans Feldberg

Professor of Data-Driven Business Innovation – VU
[email protected]

  • Data-Driven Business Model Innovation
  • decision support systems
  • Digital Innovation

Eliseo Ferrante

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Adaptive Collective Systems
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Artificial Life
  • evolutionary robotics
  • swarm robotics

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Efstratios Gavves

Associate Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • computer vision
  • Deep learning

Zeno Geradts

Professor by Special Appointment of Forensic Data Science – UvA
[email protected]

  • Forensic data science

Charlotte Gerritsen

Assistant Professor – VU CS
[email protected]

  • Agent-based modeling
  • Social AI

Theo Gevers

Professor of Computer Vision – UvA
[email protected]

  • computer vision
  • Deep learning
  • emotion recognition
  • object recognition

Sennay Ghebreab

Associate Professor – UvA IvI
[email protected]

  • Civic AI
  • Neuroinformatics

Noud van Giersbergen

Supervisory Board – ADS | Associate Professor – UvA ABS
[email protected]

  • Business Analytics
  • Econometric Theory

Judith Good

Full professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • AI and Education
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Peter Grünwald

Group Leader – CWI, Machine Learning | Professor of Statistical Learning – Leiden University
[email protected]

  • Deep learning
  • information theory
  • minimum description length
  • statistics

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Clemens Grelck

Associate Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • computer architecture
  • green ICT
  • High Performance Distributed Computing

Iris Groen

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • computational neuroscience
  • Deep learning
  • human perception
  • Scene understanding

Paola Grosso

Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Computing Infrastructures
  • green ICT
  • Optical Networking

Paul Groth

Supervisory Board – ADS | Professor of Algorithmic Data Science – UvA
[email protected]

  • data engineering
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Knowledge graphs
  • semantic web

Jonne Guyt

Assistant Professor – UvA ABS
[email protected]

  • Individual level choice models
  • Marketing
  • retailing
  • scanner panel

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Aart van Halteren

Professor by special appointment – VU
[email protected]

  • Behaviour
  • Health
  • Lifestyle interventions

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Hinda Haned

Professor by Special Appointment of Data Science – UvA
[email protected]

  • data-driven decision making
  • Intelligent Systems
  • responsible data science

Lynda Hardman

Director – ADS | Manager Research & Strategy – CWI, Human-Centered Data-Analytics | Professor of Multimedia Discourse Interaction – UU
[email protected]

  • Digital Media
  • Information Access
  • Linked Data
  • Visualisation

Frank van Harmelen

Professor of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning – VU
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • information systems
  • Knowledge Representation
  • semantic web

Jurjen R. Helmus

Senior Researcher – HvA
[email protected]

  • AI
  • IoT
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Smart Asset Managmenet

Jaap Heringa

Management Team – ADS | Professor of Bioinformatics – VU
[email protected]

  • Bioinformatics
  • genome analysis
  • Health
  • network analysis
  • sequence analysis
  • systems biology

Koen Hindriks

Professor of Artificial Intelligence – VU
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • autonomous systems
  • Health
  • Knowledge Representation
  • ROBOTICS

Alfons Hoekstra

Professor of Computational Science and Engineering – UvA
[email protected]

  • computational science
  • Health

Rutger Hofman

Research Programmer – VU
[email protected]

  • Computing Infrastructures
  • High Performance Distributed Computing
  • Machine Learning

Laura Hollink

Scientific Staff Member – CWI
[email protected]

  • Digital Media
  • Linked Data
  • Usage data

Herke van Hoof

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Machine Learning
  • reinforcement learning
  • robot models

Mark Hoogendoorn

Co-founder – AMDS | Professor of Quantitative Data Analytics – VU
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • personalised therapies
  • predictive modelling for diseases

Zhisheng Huang

Senior Researcher – VU
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Health
  • Knowledge Representation
  • semantic web

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Alexandru Iosup

Professor of Massivizing Computer Systems – VU
[email protected]

  • Cloud Computing
  • data management systems architectures
  • High Performance Distributed Computing

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Michael Kaisers

Tenured Researcher – CWI
[email protected]

  • Energy systems
  • Game Theory
  • Multi-agent reinforcement learning
  • Sample-based planning

Drona Kandhai

Professor by Special Appointment in Computational Finance – UvA
[email protected]

  • Complex systems
  • computational finance
  • financial risk
  • portfolio optimization

Evangelos Kanoulas

Associate Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Information Retrieval
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Text mining
  • Web search

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Martin Kersten

CWI-Fellow – CWI | Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Database Architectures
  • query optimisation

Michel Klein

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • behavioural data
  • Health
  • intelligent self-management systems

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Sander Klous

Professor in Big Data Analytics – UvA | Partner – KPMG
[email protected]

  • Big data
  • data processing technologies
  • High Performance Distributed Computing

Umut Konus

Associate Professor – UvA ABS
[email protected]

  • Attribution Models
  • Choice Models
  • Customer Journeys
  • Mobile and Online Marketing
  • Omnichannel Marketing

Ger Koole

Professor of Business Analytics – VU
[email protected]

  • Applied Probability
  • Health
  • Stochastic Optimisation

Wouter M. Koolen-Wijkstra

Scientific Staff Member – CWI
[email protected]

  • Bandits
  • Deep learning
  • Game Theory
  • Learning Theory

Frank Kresin

Supervisory Board – ADS | Dean of the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industry – AUAS
[email protected]

  • Citizen Science
  • Digital Innovation
  • Responsible Design

Tobias Kuhn

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • natural language
  • semantic web

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Florian Kunneman

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Conversational Agents
  • Natural Language Processing

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Cees de Laat

Professor in Systems and Network Engineering – UvA
[email protected]

  • Computing Infrastructures

Patricia Lago

Professor of Software & Services – VU
[email protected]

  • cloud migration
  • Green IT and Sustainability management
  • Service oriented architecting
  • software engineering

Inger Leemans

Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • CULTURAL HERITAGE
  • data perspectives
  • deep data representation
  • historical perspectives

Mike Lees

Associate Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • computational science
  • Multi-agent systems

Edo Roos Lindgreen

Professor of Data Science in Auditing – UvA
[email protected]

  • Auditing
  • information security
  • privacy

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Hannes Mühleisen

Scientific Staff Member – CWI | Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Database Architectures
  • statistics

Sara Magliacane

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • active learning
  • Causality
  • Transfer learning

Ivano Malavolta

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • mobile-enabled systems
  • Model-Driven Engineering
  • software architecture
  • software engineering for robotics

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Stefan Manegold

Professor of Database Management; Scientific Staff Member – CWI
[email protected]

  • Database Architectures

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Ilya Markov

Assistant Professor – UvA | Scientific Director – ICAI AIRLab
[email protected]

  • Click Models
  • Information Retrieval
  • reinforcement learning
  • Search Engines
  • Web search

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Maarten Marx

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • political data

Rob van der Mei

Professor of Applied Mathematics – VU | R&D Manager – CWI
[email protected]

  • analysis of communication networks
  • Logistics
  • Networks and Algorithms
  • Performance Modelling
  • Stochastics

Pascal Mettes

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • computer vision
  • Deep learning
  • Video understanding

Reza Mohammadi

Assistant professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Bayesian statistics
  • Causal Inference
  • Computational Statistics
  • Graphical Models
  • network analysis
  • Statistical Machine Learning

Christof Monz

Associate Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Machine translation
  • Text mining

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Eric Nalisnick

Assistant professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Anomaly detection
  • Bayesian statistics
  • Deep learning
  • Generative modeling

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Sabine Niederer

Professor of Visual Methodologies – AUAS
[email protected]

  • Citizen Empowerment
  • data visualisation
  • Digital Media

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Jacco van Ossenbruggen

Group leader – CWI, Human-Centered Data-Analytics | Professor – VU CS
[email protected]

  • CULTURAL HERITAGE
  • Information Access
  • Linked Data
  • responsible data science
  • Web Semantics

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Eric Pauwels

Group Leader – CWI, Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
[email protected]

  • Intelligent Systems

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Nanda Piersma

Management Team – ADS | Professor by special appointment of Urban Analytics – AUAS | Researcher – CWI
[email protected]

  • Applied AI
  • Responsible IT
  • Urban Analytics

Andy Pimentel

Professor of Parallel Computing Systems – UvA
[email protected]

  • embedded systems
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Multi- and manycore computer systems
  • System exploration and optimisation

Solon Pissis

Senior Researcher – CWI
[email protected]

  • Algorithms data mining
  • Algorithms Data structures string
  • Bioinformatics

Marijn Plomp

Assistant Professor; Programme Manager – VU
[email protected]

  • Chain digitisation
  • Chain-Computerisation

Marten Postma

Assistant professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Microscopy

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Rick Quax

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Causality
  • dynamical systems
  • emergent phenomena
  • information theory
  • synergy

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Maarten de Rijke

Founding Director – ADS | University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval – UvA | Director – ICAI
[email protected]

  • Information Retrieval
  • Search Engines
  • Text mining

Valentin Robu

Scientific Staff Member – CWI | Associate Professor – TU Delft
[email protected]

  • Algorithmic Game theory
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Smart energy systems

Stevan Rudinac

Associate Professor – UvA ABS
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine Learning for Business

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Clarisa Sánchez

Full Professor of AI and Health – UvA IvI
[email protected]

  • Deep learning
  • Health
  • Medical image analysis

Marc Salomon

Management Team – ADS | Professor of Decision Sciences – UvA ABS
[email protected]

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Business Economics
  • Operational Research

Fernando P. Santos

Assistant professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Fair and Pro-social AI
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Network science

Sebastian Schelter

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Data management for machine learning
  • Data systems
  • scalable machine learning

Stefan Schlobach

Associate Professor – VU CS
[email protected]

  • Knowledge Representation
  • semantic web

Ling Shao

Scientific Director of AIM Lab – UvA
[email protected]

  • computer vision
  • Deep learning
  • Medical Imaging
  • Vision and Language

Peter Sloot

Professor of Computational Science – UvA IvI
[email protected]

  • biomedicine
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • computational science

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Cees Snoek

Professor of Intelligent Sensory Information Systems – UvA IvI | Director – ICAI QUVA lab
[email protected]

  • Artificial intelligence
  • image retrieval
  • Intelligent Systems
  • video retrieval
  • Web Semantics

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Annette ten Teije

Supervisory Board – ADS | Full Professor – VU CS
[email protected]

  • formalisation of medical knowledge
  • Health
  • Healthcare Information Management
  • Healthcare quality indicators
  • Medical Guidelines

Bas Teusink

Professor of Systems Bioinformatics – VU
[email protected]

  • Bioinformatics
  • Health
  • systems biology

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Jakub Tomczak

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Deep learning
  • Generative modeling
  • Health
  • Machine Learning

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Animesh Trivedi

Assistant Professor – VU CS
[email protected]

  • Cloud Computing
  • Distributed systems
  • Storage architectures

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Jacopo Urbani

Assistant Professor – VU CS | Associated Member – CWI, Database Architectures
[email protected]

  • Knowledge Representation
  • Linked Data

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Ana Varbanescu

Associate Professor – UvA IvI
[email protected]

  • Computing Infrastructures

Vítor V. Vasconcelos

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • computational science
  • computational social science

Tibert Verhagen

Full professor – AUAS
[email protected]

  • Emerging digital technology
  • information systems
  • ROBOTICS
  • Technology Adoption

Irene Viola

Tenure track researcher – CWI
[email protected]

  • Immersive Media
  • multimedia systems
  • Quality of Experience

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Martijn de Waal

Professor of Play & Civic Media – AUAS
[email protected]

Lin Wang

Assistant Professor – VU
[email protected]

  • Edge computing
  • Networked systems
  • Stream processing

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Max Welling

Professor of Machine Learning – UvA | Director – ICAI QUVA | Director – DELTA Lab
[email protected]

  • Big data
  • Deep learning

Marcel Worring

Supervisory Board – ADS | Professor of Business Analytics – UvA ABS | Associate Professor – UvA IvI | Director – ICAI Amsterdam | Scientific Director – ICAI AIM
[email protected]

  • Information Visualisation
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Multimedia Analytics

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Shaodi You

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • computer vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Physics Based Vision

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Gábor Závodszky

Assistant professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • Computational Biomedicine
  • High-performance Computing

Zhiming Zhao

Assistant Professor – UvA
[email protected]

  • big data infrastructure
  • Cloud Computing
  • data management

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