Personal information:
    Yves Fomekong Nanfack
    yvesf@science.uva.nl
    http://staff.science.uva.nl/~yvesf/

    PhD student UvA: Simulation of Developmental Regulatory Networks
    Supervisor: Dr. Jaap Kaandorp     

Past & Present:

    I was born in Yaounde where i lived for 4 years then, i moved to Geneva,
Monrovia, back again in Yaounde and back again in Geneva where i did my studies
in Computer Sciences and Math. During my studies, i was interested in image
processing, developing simulation software mainly in Cybernetics and parallel
computing. I did my diploma thesis in  a biotechnology company where i studied
the feedback loops in metabolic pathways. That's how i get interested in the
computational and modeling aspect of biology. Since October 2004, i am involved
in the CLS's project. The main goal of my research is to retrieve quantitative
real data from images and the parameters optimization of the mathematical
models. 

Beside research, i like reading. If i would have one big question in my life time,
it won't be a scientific one, but just an humanist one: how could we make all human
life better on hearth?  

What else? Of course i enjoy cinema, clubbing and all the that fun. I like good
food, i would even say "gastronomy" but i don't mind eating a Big Mac sometimes to
times. I play basket ball, so far for more than 15 years. I am a blues and jazz
lover. My big regret? Haven't seen a Nina Simone's live before she died.