Academy portrait by Jacqueline Kasemier

Prof. Dr. Henk W. Broer

Professor of Dynamical Systems

Scientific Director of the Johann Bernoulli Institute

Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW, Afdeling Natuurkunde)

Editor in Chief Indagationes Mathematicae

Since 1991 I am professor of Dynamical Systems at the University of Groningen working at the Department of Mathematics, as a part of the Johann Bernoulli Institute within the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Groningen. I am head of the group Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Physics. Most of my mathematical life was centered around Groningen University, where I took my master degree in 1974 and my PhD in 1979. I have been traveling quite a lot and have held visiting professorships at Boston University, during half a year in 1985, and several times one to two months at the UFRJ/IMPA (Rio de Janeiro), the Limburgs Universitair Centrum (Hasselt, Belgium), Universite de Bourgogne (Dijon) and the Universitat de Barcelona, since the mid-eighties. Also a lot of shorter visits were paid to these institutions, as well as to the Georgia Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, the IMA (Minneapolis). For many years I acted as the scientific secretary of the Dutch FOM program Mathematical Physics, and as a member of the RTN European Network Mechanics and Symmetry in Europe and between 2005 and 2011 I served as the managing director of the NWO-cluster Nonlinear Dynamics of Natural Systems. For details also see my CV.

For a list of PhD students, see Mathematics Genealogy Project