Aad van der Vaart
Adrianus Willem "Aad" van der Vaart (born 12 July 1959) is a Dutch professor of Stochastics at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University.
Van der Vaart was born in Vlaardingen. He earned his PhD at Leiden University in 1987. Before starting at Leiden van der Vaart was a professor at the VU University Amsterdam.[1] He has been member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009.[2]
In 2015 he was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2.5 million euro grant.[3] He was awarded the prize for his research on mathematical models that help track genes for cancer research.[4] On being awarded the prize Van der Vaart stated that 2.5 million euro was too much, claiming he could have 35 postdoctoral and Ph.D. students work with the grant.[5]
He was also the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant in 2012.[6]
References
- ↑ Adrianus Willem van der Vaart at the "Leiden Faculty from 1575" website
- ↑ "Aad van der Vaart" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ↑ "NWO-Spinozapremies voor René Janssen, Birgit Meyer, Aad van der Vaart en Cisca Wijmenga" (in Dutch). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ↑ "Spinozapremie voor statisticus Aad van der Vaart van Universiteit Leiden" (in Dutch). Omroep West. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ↑ "Spinozapremie 2015 voor vier wetenschappers" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ↑ Arnout Jaspers (26 October 2012). "Europese subsidie voor statistiek in grote, rommelige datasets" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 27 September 2015.