Jaap Kaandorp
Section Computational Science
Faculty of Science
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 403
1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 5257539 / +31 20 5257463
email: jaapk@science.uva.nl
fax: +31 20 5257490
URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/~jaapk/

I did my MSc in in biology at the University of Amsterdam. My main
subject here was marine biology (marine sessile organisms on hard
substrate). After my biology study I have worked as a researcher 
at the Centre of Computer and Mathematics in Amsterdam at the department
of interactive systems on fractals (as a morphological model for 
biological objects) and visualization. I did my PhD in computer science 
and mathematics, both at the University of Amsterdam. The topic of
my PhD thesis was Modelling growth forms of biological objects using
fractals.
I did my postdoc at the Department of Computer Science of the University of
Calgary in Canada. During this period I continued my work on modelling
growth and form of biological objects. Currently I am working 
at the Section Computational Science of the Faculty of Science in
several computational life sciences related projects.
My research interests are: morphogenesis, marine sessile organisms,
evolutionary processes, modelling and simulation of genomic regulatory
systems, modelling and simulation of growth and form, biomechanics.
self-organisation in complex systems.

Hobbies: biology, hiking, music (unfortunately only passive;
one of the things which I regret is that I never have seen Maria Callas) 
reading, drawing and painting.