About Prof. dr. Gerrit van der Veer
Gerrit van der Veer is Professor Emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA). In addition to this he works at several other universities; at the Open University of the Netherlands (School of Computer Science), at the University of Twente (Faculty Computer Science, Department Human-Media Interaction) where he is supervising PhD students and at the University of Sassari in Alghero, Italy where he teaches Visual Design, Task Modeling and Service Design.
Gerrit van der Veer is the president of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE), president of ACM SIGCHI, and honorary Member of CHI Nederland, who has made him Godfather of the annual “Gerrit van der Veer Prijs” for best Master thesis on Human Computer Interaction.