Catholijn M. Jonker - Biography#

Full CV (2018)

Catholijn Jonker is full professor of Man-Machine Interaction at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) of Delft University of Technology.

Professor Jonker was born in Leiden, 14 August 1967. She studied Computer Science (with specializations Logic & Parallel and Distributed Systems) at Utrecht University, where she earned her MSc in 1990. In 1994 she obtained her PhD at the same University. (Title of dissertation: Constraints and negations in logic programming).

After a post-doc position in Bern, Switzerland, she became assistant (later associate) professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Free University in Amsterdam. From september 2004 until september 2006 she was a full professor of Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science at the Nijmegen Institute of Cognition and Information of the Radboud University Nijmegen. She was a member of the Jonge Akademie (Young Academy) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) from 2005 until 2010, which she chaired in 2005 and 2006.[1] She is a board member of the National Network Female Professors (LNVH) in The Netherlands.

Her research and publications address cognitive processes and concepts such as trust, negotiation, teamwork and the dynamics of individual agents and organisations. The challenge for her and her interdisciplinary team is to create synergy between humans and technology. Understanding, developing and using fundamentals of intelligence and interaction are central for meeting that challenge. At the end of 2007 her NWO-STW VICI project “Pocket Negotiator” was awarded. In this project she is currently developing intelligent decision support systems for negotiation.

[1]This (highly prestigious) junior membership of the KNAW is strictly limited to one 5-year period.