Aad van der Vaart#
| Membership Number: | 6462 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://fa.ewi.tudelft.nl/˜vaart/ |
| ORCID: | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8074-2375 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 Full Professor, TU Delft
- 2012 - 2021 Full Professor , Leiden University
- 2000 Miller Fellow University of California, Berkeley
- 1996 - 2012, Full Professor , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 1995 - 1996 Professeur Première Classe, Université Paris XI
- 1992 - 1995 Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
- 1990 - 1991 Associate Professor, Texas A& M University, College Station
- 1987 - 1992 Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 1983 - 1987 Research Assistant, Leiden University
Fields of Scholarship
- Inverse problems
- High-dimensional statistics
- Statistical genetics
- Le Cam theory
- Time series
- Causal inference
- Empirical processes
- Genomics
- Nonparametric Bayesian statistics
- Mathematical finance
- Semiparametric theory
Honours and Awards
- 2020 DeGroot Prize [for the book “Fundamentals of Nonparametric Bayesian Inference”]
- 2019 Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2018 Fellow International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- 2018 Member Circle of the International Mathematical Union
- 2015 Spinoza prize
- 2012 ERC Advanced grant
- 2009 Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
- 2001 Fellow Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 2000 Elected member of International Statistical Institute
- 2000 Miller Fellow, University of California
- 2000 van Dantzig prize, Netherlands Statistical Society [awarded 5 yearly]
- 1988 C.J. Kok prize, Leiden University
