Jaap A. Kaandorp received his MS, with distinction, in biology
(main subject marine biology) in 1985 and a PhD (subject modelling growth
and form of marine organisms) in computer science and mathematics in 1992,
both from the University of Amsterdam. He has worked from 1985 -1987
as a researcher at the Centre of Computer Science and Mathematics in
Amsterdam. In 1992 he did research as a postdoctoral fellow, on a Government
of Canada Award, at the Department of Computer Science of the University of
Calgary in Canada. Currently he works as an associate professor
at the Section Computational Science of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer
Science, Physics & Astronomy of the University of Amsterdam.
His research interests are: morphogenesis, marine sessile organisms,
evolutionary processes, modelling and simulation of developmental regulatory
networks and metabolic pathways, modelling and simulation of growth and form,
biomechanics.