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2 Education<br />

1978 to 1984<br />

Secondary school: Cobbenhagen College, Brittendreef 5, 5012 AE Tilburg,<br />

The Netherlands. Completing the VWO secondary education (Preparatory<br />

Scientific Education) gives a right of entry to a Dutch university.<br />

October 1984 to June 1986 and October 1987 to June 1988<br />

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics at the<br />

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Department of Computer Science,<br />

Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3BZ, Dyfed, Wales.<br />

I received a class II(i) BSc (Hons) degree.<br />

October 1988 to December 1992<br />

27 May 1993 PhD defence (viva). Postgraduate degree (PhD) at the Laboratory<br />

for Foundations of Computer Science, Department of Computer<br />

Science. University of Edinburgh. James Clerk Maxwell Building, The<br />

King’s Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland.<br />

In my thesis, Embedding Hardware Description Languages in Proof <strong>Systems</strong>,<br />

I gave a static and dynamic operational semantics for a subset of the<br />

ella hardware description language, and embedded this semantics in the<br />

higher-order-logic proof system Lambda, and proved various properties<br />

about the embedded semantics, formal hardware synthesis, and symbolic<br />

simulation. Prof. M. P. Fourman was my promotor.<br />

3 Employment History<br />

4 August 1986 to 24 July 1987<br />

Full-time employment as a software engineer at Praxis <strong>Systems</strong> Plc. 20<br />

Manvers Street, Bath BA1 1PX, England.<br />

One project involved porting a relational database from a personal computer<br />

to a mini computer, another implementing various parts of a compiler<br />

(Algol68 to C translator).<br />

October 1988 to July 1991<br />

Part-time employment as an undergraduate supervisor (for first-year students)<br />

and tutor (for third-year students) at the Department of Computer<br />

Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.<br />

1 July 1991 to 30 August 1992<br />

Part-time (0.5 FTE) appointment as a research associate at the Department<br />

of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland on the<br />

SERC-funded project Formal System Design Tools.<br />

1 December 1992 to 31 September 1993<br />

Full-time appointment as a research fellow at the Department of Computer<br />

3

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