Jano van Hemert

Jano van Hemert received his M.S. degree in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in 2004 in mathematics and physical sciences at the Leiden University, The Netherlands. He leads the research at the National e-Science Institute of the United Kingdom in Edinburgh and is a Visiting Researcher at the Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh of the United Kingdom, Medical Research Council. He has held research positions at the Leiden University (The Netherlands), the Vienna University of Technology (Austria), University of Edinburgh (UK), Napier University (UK), and the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (The Netherlands). In 2004, he was awarded the talented young researcher fellowship by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Since 1997, he is involved in the field of evolutionary computation as an active member of numerous steering committees and programme committees for science networks, journals, conferences, and summer schools. He has over forty peer-reviewed papers published on the topic of evolutionary computation, most of which are focused around combinatorial optimisation.

Biography Updated on 20 February 2007