I am a full professor ("hoogleraar" in Dutch) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Technical University of Eindhoven and a member of the Algorithms group. Research Interests: Algorithms and data structures; discrete and computational geometry; applications of computational geometry to geographic information systems; graph drawing. The video on the right is an attempt to explain my research interests to a broader audience ...

	I am currently a member of The Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen). I am also a member of the Global Young Academy.
	I won the first Netherlands Prize for ICT Research (see here for some more details in Dutch). Part of the prize was a poster which gives a high-level impression of my work and was sent to high schools all over the Netherlands.

• 19th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 2011, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
  

PC member:

• Spatial Data Handling (SDH 2012, August 22–24, Bonn, Germany)
• Computability in Europe - Conference Series (CiE 2012, June 18–23, Cambridge, U.K.)
• 15th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2012, April 24 27, Avignon, France)
• 19th European Symposium on Algorithms - Engineering and Applications Track (ESA 2011, September 5–9, Saarbrücken, Germany)
• Geoinformatik 2011 (June 15–17, Münster, Germany)
• 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2011, April 18–21, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• 18th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 2010, September 21–24, Konstanz, Germany)
• 6th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010, September 14–17, Zurich, Switzerland)
  
• 26th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2010, June 13–16, Snowbird, USA)
• 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2010, May 11–14, Guimarães, Portugal)
• 11th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS 2009, August 21–23, Banff, Canada)
• 21st Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2009, August 17–19, Vancouver, Canada)
• 12th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2009, June 2–5, Hannover, Germany)
• 20th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2009, January 4–6, 2009, New York, USA)
• 13th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH 2008, June 23–25, Montpellier, France)
• 11th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2008, May 6–8, Girona, Spain)
• 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 2006, September 18–20, Karlsruhe, Germany)
• 18th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2006, August 14–16, Kingston, Canada)
• 13th European Symposium on Algorithms - Engineering and Applications Track (ESA 2005, October 3–6, Mallorca, Spain)
• 21st ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2005, June 6–8, Pisa, Italy)

Historical Remarks: Before I came to Eindhoven I was a postdoc in the Combinatorics, Geometry and Computation European Graduate Program at ETH Zurich. In Zurich I was a member of the Theory of Combinatorial Algorithms group headed by Emo Welzl. I received my Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where I was supervised by David Kirkpatrick and Jack Snoeyink.