Curriculum Vitae of Flora Margaretha Spieksma

Personal

Date and place of birth     13-IX-1958 Caracas (Venezuela)

Citizenship                      Dutch (and Venezuelan)

Marital status                  One child Alexander V.J., born 24-XII-1996

Education

June 1990                        PhD degree in Mathematics at the University of Leiden
                                        Supervisor: A. Hordijk
                                        Title thesis: Geometrically ergodic Markov chains and the optimal Control of Queues.

August 1985                     MSc degree (cum laude) in Mathematics at the University of Leiden

June 1981                        BSc degree in Mathematics at the University of Leiden

February 1981                  BA degree in Spanish language and literature at the University of Leiden

June 1976                         Graduation from the Willem de Zwijger Lyceum, Bussum

Professional  Employment 

July 1998 - present             Assistant Professor, University of Leiden

July 1993 - July 1998          Senior KNAW-fellow, University of Leiden

Sept. 1991 - July 1993         Post-doc, University of Leiden, 

                                            supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research N.W.O.

Febr. 1991 - Sept. 1991       Post-doc, University of Leiden

Aug. 1990 - Febr. 1991       Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley,

                                            supported by N.W.O.   

Febr. 1986 - Febr, 1990       PhD researcher, University of Leiden
                                         supported by N.W.O.

Sept. 1985 - Febr. 1986       PhD researcher, University of Leiden

Sept. 1982 - Sept. 1985        Teaching Assistant, University of Leiden

Awards

1993          5-year fellowship of the KNAW, he Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

1991          C.J.Kok prize 1989

1991          Shell travelling grant, awarded bij Shell Research B.V.

1984          Book grant from the Brunne Nooteboom fund for the Sciences

1984          Book grant from the Rijke Hamaker fund for Languages and Literature

PhD students 

1996          Olaf Passchier (co-promotor)

2003          Nikolay Popov (daily supervisor)

International Workshops and Conferences

March 16 - 19, 2005          Co-organisor of the Workshop on `Stochastic Systems', Lorentz Centre, 

                                           Leiden University

April 25 - 29, 1994            Organisor of the Workshop on `Stability and Geometric Ergodicity',

                                           Leiden University

Editorial Activities

*   Co-editor (with L. Kallenberg and G. Koole) of the special issue of Math. Methods Oper. Res. 26,

        in honour of Arie Hordijk, 2006.

*   Co-founder (with V.A. Malyshev and E.N. Petrova) of the journal `Markov Processes and Related Fields'

        (founded in 1995); Scientific Editor, Corrector, Publisher and Distributor from January 1995 till April 1999.