C.m. (matthijs) Van Veelen

Biography

Before I came to CREED, I studied econometrics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My master's thesis, called Apples and Oranges, was on comparisons of wealth, income and price levels across countries or across time. Then I switched to evolutionary game theory and in 2004 I defended my PhD thesis Survival of the Fair: modelling the evolution of altruism, fairness and morality. Gerard van der Laan supervised both of them. After my defense, I received a VENI-grant from the NWO (the Netherlands Science Foundation), which allowed me to continue to drift towards the boundary with biology at CREED. Here I also benefit from the regular interaction with Maus Sabelis and others at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED). Im 2009 and 2011 I was at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) at Harvard. Since 2012 I am a member of De Jonge Akademie (The Young Academy), which is part of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

Research Interest

Microeconomics