Martin van Gijzen - Biography

Biography

Martin van Gijzen received Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from the Delft University of Technology in 1989 and 1993, respectively. He carried out his Ph.D. research at TNO Building and Construction Research, now DIANA FEA.

In 1994, he became a Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematics at Utrecht University. In 1997, he joined the research staff at TNO Physics & Electronics Laboratorium, where he was a Senior Scientist and later a Project Leader in charge of international projects on underwater communication and had to find his sea legs and leadership skills during several experiments in changing weather in the North and Irish Seas.

His desire to return to academia led him in 2002 to accept a position as a Senior Scientist in Parallel Algorithms at CERFACS in Toulouse, France. In 2004, he joined the faculty of the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics at the Delft University of Technology, where he is now a Professor in High-Performance Computing.

Dr. Van Gijzen is originally from The Hague and lives in Delft with his wife, Marielba Rojas. His main hobbies are reading (mainly fantasy series and the news!), traveling (preferably in France), hiking, watching bicycle races, and playing chess. In his youth, he dedicated a lot of his time to training children at his local chess club, Haeghe Ooievaar. Nowadays, he is an active member of Chess.com.