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H.H.L.M. (Jeroen) Donkers
Assistant Professor
Education Development and Research, FHML
Maastricht University

Visit: Universiteitsingel 60 in Maastricht, room M5.06
Surface mail: P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, NL
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phone: (+31) (0)43-388 5738

Resume

Born on april 8th 1963 in the village of Gemert (no, not Limburg this is North Brabant!). After secondary school I started studying Biology in 1981 at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (nowadays Radboud University), but stopped in 1985 after receiving my bachelor degree (kandidaats) in Biology and Mathematics. At the (former) Philips Computer Division in Apeldoorn I followed a professional programmer course.

This lead me to my first job at this university. I started as a scientific programmer and system manager at the department of Medical Informatics and Statistics for eigth years. During this period I was occupied with supporting the staff members as analist/programmer and as system manager, organizing the "computer landscape" of the Faculties of Health Science and Medicine and supporting and organizing computer courses in both faculties. In my spare time, I managed to do some research, leading to a few publications and conference papers. One of the projects I worked on was the Computerized Case-based Testing in cooperation with Cees van der Vleuten, Lambert Schwurith and Robret Peperkamp of the department of education development and research.

Being fascinated with research and regretting my abrupt ending of college, I decided to move on. The faculty of General Sciences offered me a job as scientific programmer, but allowed me to take courses in Knowledge Engeneering at this faculty in order to finish my Master degree. I gladly accepted and jumped over the river. (The river Meuse is separating not only the city of Maastricht, but also these faculties.) During my part-time programming job at the faculty I did some Operations Research work for Cookson-Matthey, database programming for the Academic Hospital of Maastricht, Internet programming for a local television company, and but that is still not finished, some work for the police force in the PALMA and EMMI projects.

I Finished my Master degree at July 10, 1997 and received the bull at september 23.

My Master's thesis and internship report are available now as Technical Reports at the department of Computer science:

After my master's, I continued with my Ph.D. research. At the beginning on the INDEKS project on decision making in large-scale infrastructural projects. In November 1999, I changed the subject of my research to Probabilistic Opponent Modelling. (See my Ph.D. page). This resulted in the successful defence of my thesis on December 5, 2003.

Following my Ph.D. defence I was assistant professor in the department of Computer Science which later became MICC. My research topic first was intelligent search in games. I have been deputy editor of the ICGA Journal for some time. Lateron I became interested in the combination of Artificial intelligence in Bioinformatics and became involved in BioMICC. I have been member of the board of education for Knowlede Engineering and have been teaching computer science courses in the Knowledege Engineering program and bioinformatics at the University College Maastricht.

Since November 2007, I am appointed as assistant professor at the department of Educational Development and Research in the factulty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences. My research interests are e-learning and in particular the application of artificial intelligence in e-learning.

Private Interests


Me in my natural habitat... (PLEASE don't feed - I'll grow fat!)