After Delft and Leyden, first medical informatics at VU and Erasmus, then professor of biology and since 1995 professor of computer science at the UvA ever since. Advised 60 PhD’s to graduation, chaired IPN for 7 years, member of the Faculty Board for finance for 4 years, member of the Academia Europeana, recipient of the De Vries medallion, recipient of the ACM SIGMM Life time award, member of the KHMW, member of the ERC and other selection committees, Euvision and Kepler startups.