Dr. F. (Frank) Staals

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Kamer 4.11
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Dr. F. (Frank) Staals

Assistant Professor
Geometric Computing
f.staals@uu.nl

My main research interest lies in Computational Geometry, an area of Theoretical Computer Science that deals with algorithmic questions involving geometric data (points, lines, triangles, etc). I am particularly interested in problems involving objects that move (for example as in kinetic data structures and in trajectory analysis), problems involving polygons, “obstacles”, and distances, and in geometric data structures. Although my work is typically theoretical in nature, I do really like it if the problems have a “real-world” application somewhere down the line.