Steven KelkAssociate Professor

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where I work within the Networks and Strategic Optimization (NSO) cluster. My contact details are here. I am vice-chair of the Maastricht Young Academy (MYA).

Between 2004 and 2010 I was a postdoc in the Life Sciences cluster of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, in the subgroup Combinatorial Problems in Biology. I obtained my PhD in late 2003 from the Algorithms and Computational Complexity Research Group at the University of Warwick. My supervisor was Leslie Goldberg.

My main research interests are graph theory, phylogenetics, fixed parameter tractability, approximation algorithms and (more generally) combinatorial optimization within computational biology. Here is a short video about my research.