Email: joost at liacs dot nl
Address:
Leiden Institute of Advanced
Visiting address: Room 169, Niels Bohrweg
1, 2333 CA
Phone:
+31-71-527 7057
Fax: +31-71-527 6985
I
have worked at the Free University in
Currently, I am the
Scientific Director of the Leiden Institute of
Advanced Computer Science, co-head of the research clusters Algorithms and Foundations of Software Technology.
Moreover, I am docent at the computer science
department of the Åbo Akademi University, board
member of the Centre for Mathematics and Computer
Science, member of the editorial board of Fundamenta
Informaticae and editor of the book
series on Natural Computing of Springer Verlag. I
am also the Artificial Intelligence theme editor Encyclopedia
Of Life Support Systems, Unesco, associate editor
of the Natural
Computing Journal, editor of Theoretical
Computer Science, section C, editor of the journal
of Universal Computer Science, Editor Computational
Intelligence, Blackwell Publishing and series editor of the book series Frontiers in Artificial
Intelligence and Applications.
A larger curriculum vitae can be found here.
My research is
concentrated around the themes (scientific) data management, data
mining, bioinformatics, algorithms. For a
selection of my publications search our search-engine
for publications on algorithms and our search engine for
publications on foundations of software technology (use Kok as search term).


Some of my (former) PhD students