Published 12 May 2009
Dr. Ramon Puras is AUC's Director of Education and Head of Studies (Sciences). Ramon Puras graduated (Diplom) in Chemistry/Biochemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). He received his PhD on ‘HIV integrase: a target for drug discovery' (AIDS research) from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, and followed postdoctoral studies at the VU University Amsterdam. He has been a lecturer at Utrecht University and University College Utrecht (UCU). He was involved in the development of the Prestige Master programme in Biomolecular Sciences at Utrecht University. Direct phone number: +31 (0)20 525 8787
- Louis Akkermans was appointed emeritus Professor of Gastrointestinal Physiology at the Utrecht University. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Experimental Surgery and Co-director of the Gastro-intestinal Motility Laboratory at the University Medical Centre Utrecht.
He graduated in Biology and obtained his PhD at Utrecht University where he specialized in Gastrointestinal Physiology and Pharmacology. He also served as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry for many years. His current research interests include functional bowel diseases, pancreatitis, gut-microbiota interaction, and investigations into the mode of action of probiotics. During the last 10 years, he was also a teacher and examiner of medical undergraduate courses in metabolism, endocrinology, gastrointestinal diseases and a research oriented elective course in gastric mucosal barrier homeostasis and immunity.
- Dr. Madelief Bertens is Assistant Professor of Health Communication at the VU University Amsterdam and has been working at the Athena Institute, Science Communication since 2008.
Madelief Bertens studied Psychology and Anthropology at the Radboud University Nijmegen and followed a specialization in Medical Anthropology at University of Amsterdam. She obtained her MA in Neuropsychology in 1996, and an MA in Cultural Anthropology in 1998. She completed her PhD in Health Promotion, Health Sciences at Maastricht University in 2008. She focused on sexual and reproductive health and cultural and gender sensitive STI/HIV-prevention among ethnic minorities. Her main areas of research are sexual and reproductive health, health and migration, culture and health.
- Matthias Bickelhaupt is Professor of Theoretical Organic Chemistry and Biocatalysis in the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at VU University.
Matthias Bickelhaupt graduated in Chemistry at VU University Amsterdam and received his PhD on a combined mass spectrometric and theoretical investigation on base-induced elimination reactions at the University of Amsterdam. He has been a postdoctoral associated at the Universities of Erlangen (Germany), Calgary (Canada) and Cornell (USA). In 1997, he joined the University of Marburg (Germany) as Assistant Professor, got tenure in 1999, became Associate Professor in 2003 and Full Professor in 2009 at VU University. In 2002, he received the prestigious VICI award of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for the development of theories and models that enable one to predict and steer chemical reactions on the basis of the electronic structure of molecular systems.
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- Colleen Doak is Assistant Professor at the VU University Amsterdam and has been working at the Department of Health Sciences, Nutrition and Health since 2003.
Colleen Doak obtained her BA and her MA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. She completed her PhD in Nutrition at the University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill. Her focal area of research relates to improving nutrition, including under-nutrition as well as overweight and obesity. Her current ongoing research collaborations are mainly in South Africa and Guatemala but also include global, multi-country comparisons.
- Michiel van Drunen studied Environmental Chemistry at Leiden University between 1986 and 1990 and received his PhD at the Delft University of Technology.
He has worked at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam since 1996. His research projects deal with making environmental information transparent for decision makers, such as the development of a decision support system for soil remediation, sustainability indicators for Amazonia, socio-economic scenarios for climate assessments, measuring the environmental performance of industries, financing adaptation in developing countries and many others.
In addition, he has developed and taught several environment-related courses at the VU University.
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- Jan-Mark Geusebroek is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam.
After a degree in Electrical Engineering, he received his PhD with a study on colour and geometrical information processing for computer vision from the University of Amsterdam in 2000. He was visiting scientist in Oxford and at Johnson & Johnson's fundamental research labs. His research interests are in cognitive vision systems and biologically motivated vision, as well as machine learning for visual perception. He has developed and taught several computer vision and sensory information processing related courses at the University of Amsterdam.
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- Ronald Griessen studied Physics at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich (CH). After having completed his PhD in 1974 at the same university on quantum oscillatory effects in metals he went to the McLennan Laboratory of the University of Toronto. In 1976 he joined the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam where he is now full Professor and Head of the Condensed Matter Physics department.
His research activities have shifted gradually from high temperature superconductivity to switchable mirrors and is presently focused on energy storage in hydrides, optic fiber hydrogen sensors and smart solar collectors.
Since 2005 he is also Chairman of the Board of Governors of FOM (Fundamental Research of Matter) and Chairman of the Physics Division of NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). He received the ETH medal in 1969, the Physica Prize in 2001 and the Onderwijsprijs of the Vrije Universiteit in 2007.
- Sebastian de Haro, lecturer in Physics.
Sebastian de Haro received his MSc and PhD in theoretical physics from Utrecht University. After his PhD, he held research positions at the University of California, Los Angeles, (CA, USA), the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) in Potsdam, Germany, and King's College, London. He is currently a research fellow at Utrecht University and the Managing Editor of Foundations of Physics. His areas of research are string theory, quantum gravity, and the philosophical foundations of physics.
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- Anco Lankreijer studied Plate Tectonics in Eastern and Central Europe and received a PhD in Earth Sciences at VU University Amsterdam. He currently teaches field courses in Spain and in the Ardennes, as well as courses in academic skills to Earth Scientists. As Director of Education at the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences he coordinates a number of curricula in Earth Sciences.
- Breanndán Ó Nualláin is a member of the Section Computational Science of the Institute of Informatics at the University of Amsterdam where he develops and decision support systems and distributed systems for scientific computing.
He graduated in Mathematical Physics at University College Dublin, Ireland before continuing his studies there in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Since 1991, he has been employed at the University of Amsterdam, firstly at the Department of Statistics and Methodology where he worked on Automated Reasoning, and later at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation where he conducted research on Machine Learning.
- Jan Hindrik Ravesloot (Amsterdam 1961) studied Medicine (Leiden University 1986) and did his PhD at Leiden University (1991).
After a three-year post-doctoral period at Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) he became Assistant Professor at the Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA) Department of Physiology in 1993 and was promoted to full Professor in 2001. He and his staff conduct research in ion transport processes in cardiac cells. He is actively involved in advancing (bio)medical (physiology) higher education. Since September 2008 he has been Director of the Graduate School Life and Earth Sciences of the UvA Faculty of Science (FNWI).
- Jan Pieter van der Schaar is a Senior Lecturer at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics and lectures in Physics and Mathematics. His research is centered on string theory and cosmology.
Jan Pieter van der Schaar obtained his bachelor degree in Physics and Astronomy,and his master degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Groningen. He also received his PhD on "String Theory Limits and Dualities" from the University of Groningen, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan, CERN and Columbia University, New York.
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- Eric Schranz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, in the Intitute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics in the group Experimental Plant Systematics.
Eric Schranz obtained his BS in Plant Sciences from Cornell University (USA). He received his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), and followed post-doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Germany) and Duke University (USA).
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- Marika Taylor obtained her MA in Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics) from the University of Cambridge, and then completed a PhD in high energy theoretical physics in Cambridge under the supervision of Stephen Hawking. After postdoctoral research in Harvard and Utrecht, she joined the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Amsterdam.
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- Etienne Verheijck, coordinator of the science course The Human Body - Anatomy and Physiology.
Etienne Verheijck is an Associate Professor in Physiology at the University of Amsterdam /Academic Medical Centre. He has extensive teaching experience in lecturing human physiology to medical and dental students at undergraduate and post-graduate level. He is vice president of the educational board of Medical Informatics at the Academic Medical Centre.
Etienne Verheijck obtained his Master degree in Medical Biology at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD on ‘Pacemaker currents in the heart' from the Academic Medical Centre, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Emory's Children's Hospital, Atlanta, USA.
- Anna Watts is an Assistant Professor at the Anton Pannekoek Astronomical Institute at the University of Amsterdam.
She studies extreme nuclear and magnetic field physics using neutron stars, focusing in particular on violent dynamical events such as starquakes and explosions. Anna studied Physics at Oxford University before obtaining a PhD in Applied Mathematics (Theoretical Astrophysics) from the University of Southampton in the UK. She held postdoctoral fellowships at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in the USA and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, before moving to Amsterdam in 2008.
- Shimon Whiteson is an assistant professor in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group in the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 2000 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Computer Science. He completed his PhD in Computer Science in 2007 from the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as an IBM PhD Fellow. His research focuses on the development of new algorithms to enable intelligent machines to solve complex sequential decision problems. His focus is on decision-theoretic approaches to planning and learning in single- and multi-agent systems, with an emphasis on reinforcement learning.
- Cor Zonneveld, Course Coordinator General Biology & Basic Research Methods and Statistics.
Cor Zonneveld lectures on Evolutionary Biology and Methodology & Statistics to students of the Biomedical Sciences and Health Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam. After a degree in Biology, he received his PhD with a study on the ability of a mathematical model for energy budgets to describe a variety of experimental findings. During several post docs, he studied evolutionary aspects of the rate of development in male and female butterflies, and modelled the phytoplankton growth in response to nutrient and light availability. From 2005 on, he has been fully committed to teaching at bachelor and master level.
Source: AUC
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