Prof.  Jacobus  Hendricus Koolen
University of Science and Technology of China

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Jack Koolen is currently a full professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his Ph.D. from Eindhoven University of Technology in 1994 under supervision of Prof Andries Brouwer. 
After a few post doc positions in for example Oxford University and Kyushu University, he became an associate professor in POSTECH in Pohang Korea. Since 2013 he is a full professor at the University of Science and Technology of China.
His main interest is in algebraic graph theory especially distance-regular graphs. Recently he also got interested in graphs with fixed smallest eigenvalues. He has co-authored a book on phylogenetic combinatorics.