Rutger Vos

Rutger Vos is a seasoned bioinformatician with extensive experience in evolutionary biology, currently coordinating bioinformatics research at Naturalis since February 2012. Vos has also contributed to academia as a lecturer at Leiden University from November 2017 to December 2024. Prior to these roles, Vos held positions including Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Reading, bioinformatics consultant at the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia, while also playing a key role at the CyberInfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research as a software engineer. Educationally, Vos earned a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Simon Fraser University and an MSc in Evolution and Ecology from the University of Amsterdam.