Jan Willem Klop

Jan Willem Klop (born 1945) is a professor of applied logic at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical logic from Utrecht University. Klop is known for his work on the algebra of communicating processes, co-author of TeReSe and his fixed point combinator

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Jan Willem Klop
Born(1945-12-19)December 19, 1945
SpouseMarianne Leicher
ChildrenMaartje (1976)
AwardsUniversity of East Anglia honorary doctorate (2002), IFIP WG 1.6 honorary member (2011)
Scientific career
ThesisCombinatory Reduction Systems (1980)
Doctoral advisorDirk van Dalen, Henk Barendregt
Doctoral studentsMassimo Marchiori

where

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Klop became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

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