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Who am I?
Joost Kircz
KRA PUBLISHING RESEARCH
The right question to your solution
Born in Amsterdam, and still living there, I started my studies at the Amsterdam University.
After a university research career in molecular physics (Amsterdam and Utrecht), I joined the scientific publishing industry. During 16 years at Elsevier Science, I held various positions, including that of publisher of the distinguished physics programme (published under the North-Holland imprint).
From the start of my publishing career, I was engaged in the design and
implementation of electronic publishing experiments and products. Fully
in harmony with the development of my professional activities as a publisher,
I developed a scientific research programme on the issue of a better understanding
of scientific communications per se. This resulted in project leadership
of the "Communication in Physics"
programme of the Foundation Physica, hosted at the Van der Waals-Zeeman
Institute of the University of Amsterdam. I was guest scientist at this
institute June 1997 till March 2004. I have also been affiliated as senior
scientist with the Intelligent System Laboratory Amsterdam (ISLA). This
collaborative initiative entailed two PhD studies
(see projects), one in text structuring and one in image recognition in
the biomedical sciences. As from April 2004, I'm visiting scientist at
the Information and Language Processing
Systems Group of the University of Amsterdam.
On July 1, 1998, I started Kircz Research Amsterdam (KRA), an independent research and consultancy company in Publishing Research.
Between January 1st, 2003 and December 31st I was part-time Scientific Information Specialist at the University Library of the Erasmus University Rotterdam for Semantic Web based projects (see also projects).
As from July 1st 2006 part-time Lector (professor) Electronic Publishing at the Faculty Media, Creation and Informationtituteof the Hogenschool van Amsterdam (University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam).
