Jan Rutten is senior researcher at CWI (centre for mathematics and computer science) in Amsterdam and professor of theoretical computer science at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was the founder of present day Universal Coalgebra, which is a general theory of the circular behaviour of automata, dynamical systems and infinite data structures.
He was the (co)initiator of the workshop series Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS) and the Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO). He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the conference on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSEN). His current research interests include coalgebraic foundations of computation as well as formal methods for software engineering, notably service-oriented and component-based programming.
