Gerard Vreeswijk studied pure mathematics (track: set theoretic topology) at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In 1993, he defended his PhD thesis on a topic in theoretical computer science. During 1993-1996, he worked as a consultant in the development of expert systems in the financial sector. In 1995 he was invited for half a year as a visiting scholar at the Washington University in St. Louis, where he worked with Prof. Ron Loui on argumentation logics. In 1996-1998 Vreeswijk worked as a postdoc at the University of Maastricht (IT, Jaap van den Herik, theme distributed AI) and the University of Groningen (Philosophy, Theo Kuipers, theme computational philosophy of science). In 1999, Vreeswijk was appointed in the function of assistant professor at the University of Utrecht. Currently he is a lecturer and researcher in the Natural Language Processing group of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the Faculty of Beta-sciences, and core lecturer at the bachelor and master programme on Artificial Intelligence. His interests lie in the fields of multi-agent learning, computational dialectic, natural language generation, and the connection between those fields. Dr. Vreeswijk has (co-) authored over 100 publications, reviews leading scientific journals, and reviews / arbitrates on a regular basis for the NWO (Dutch Research Council) and the ERC (European Research Council).