dr. GAK (George) van Voorn

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My work focuses on the development and application of modelling methodologies, mainly applied in the agri-food and ecological domains. Important methodological topics I currently work on are:

• Hybrid machine learning for applications in crop modelling and ecology;
• Dynamical systems based models, such as stochastic differential equations;
• Agent based models for various socio-ecological applications, primarily in the agri-food domain;
• The modelling of resilience of Socio-ecological Systems (SES), such as agri-food systems;
• The development of analysis methodologies like sensitivity analysis for ABMs.

Previously I have done work on:

• Model quality insurance of nature and environmental policy models;
• Tipping points modelling;
• The development of methodologies for the detection and continuation of (global) bifurcations;
• The development of guidelines for validation of health-economic models.

I am a course coordinator of the course MAT15003 (mathematics 3: linear algebra), and co-coordinator of SSB-30806 Modelling in Systems Biology and some other modelling courses. I also coordinate PhD courses and Summer Schools on mathematics and Agent Based Modelling.