Jan Koenderink graduated in Physics and Mathematics in 1967 at Utrecht University. He has been associate professor in Experimental Psychology at the Universiteit Groningen. In 1974 he became lector, 1978 full professor Universiteit Utrecht where held a chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. In 2008 he was forced to retire (at 65). At Utrecht he cofounded the Helmholtz Instituut in which multidisciplinary work in biology, medicine, physics and computer science is coordinated. Jan Koenderink spent periods at Oxford, École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and is currently visiting professor at M.I.T.

Jan Koenderink presently is at Delft University of Technology. His main (scientific) interests are the psychology and philosophy of perception, computer vision and ecological physics, in all cases both theoretically (conceptually and mathematically) and empirically.

Jan Koenderink has received an honorific degree (D.Sc.) in Medicine from the University of Leuven and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the editorial boards of a fair number of scientific journals, scientific boards of international conferences and scientific institutes.

Sample publications

Koenderink, JJ & Pont, SC (2008). Material properties for surface rendering. International Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics, 1, 45-53

Koenderink, JJ, van Doorn, AJ & Todd, JT (2009). Wide distribution of external local sign in the normal population. Psychological Research, 73, 14-22

Koenderink, JJ & van Doorn, AJ (2008). The structure of visual spaces. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 31, 171-187

Koenderink, JJ, van Doorn, AJ, Pont, SC & Richards, W (2008). Gestalt and phenomenal transparency. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 25, 190-202

Richards W, Koenderink JJ & van Doorn A (2009). Transparency and imaginary colors. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 26, 1119-1128