dr. GAK (George) van Voorn
Associate Professor Applied Modelling & Machine LearningMy 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.