Hans Victor Westerhoff PhD

Hans Westerhoff is an internationally renowned systems biologist. Systems biology, a new discipline, investigates how biological functioning is determined in the complex interactions of parts of living systems. Westerhoff is the founder of mosaic non-equilibrium thermodynamics and hierarchical control and regulation analysis. He also focuses on network-oriented medicines. Westerhoff was one of the first to view cancer as a systems biological disease.

Westerhoff also works as a professor of Systems Biology at the University of Manchester and as a professor of Microbial Physiology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. From 1994 to 2009 he was a professor by special appointment of Mathematical Biochemistry at the UvA. Westerhoff is a board member of the International Society for Systems Biology and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology. He is co-coordinator of the EU flagship project (1.5 G€) called ICT for the Future of Medicine (ITFoM, see reference below), which uses seven billion ICT models of just as many individuals to provide truly individualized medication and wants to make welfare management possible. He manages the Manchester-based research center in Systems Biology as well as the associated research school with approximately 45 PhD students.