Joost Kok

Joost Kok currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science and a Professor in Applied Data Science at Universiteit Twente since February 2018. In addition, Joost Kok has been a Board Member of the Netherlands eScience Center since June 2018. Previously, Joost Kok held various academic positions at Universiteit Leiden between May 1995 and May 2020, including Professor of Medicine, Professor of Computer Science, and Scientific Director of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. Joost Kok also served as a Board Member at Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica from 2004 to 2014 and was an Associate Professor at Utrecht University from 1989 to 1995, specializing in Neurocomputing. Joost Kok's earlier roles include Tf. Bitt. Professor in Information Processing at Åbo Akademi University and Researcher at Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica. Joost Kok completed a PhD in Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 1985 and 1989 and earned an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Amsterdam from 1979 to 1985.