- November 2014: Full professor Algorithms and Complexity, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University (Nov 2014 - Oct 2018: 4 days per week; Nov 2018 - now: 5 days per week).
- November 2014 - October 2018: Professor Network Algorithms, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology (1 day per week).
- June 2003 – October 2014: Associate Professor, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University.
- August 1987 – June 2003: Assistant Professor, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University.
- February 1986 – August 1986: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, M.I.T.
- November 16, 1985: Ph.D. obtained, with thesis Distributed Computing - Structure and Complexity. Supervisor prof.dr. Jan van Leeuwen.
- February 1984 – January 1986: Research assistant (PhD student and postdoc), Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University. Employed by ZWO, predecessor of NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research).
- August 1983 – January 1984: Reasearch assistant (PhD student), Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University. (Employed by UU.)
- August 1983: M.Sc. Mathematics, Utrecht University
- April 1981: B.Sc. Mathematics, Utrecht University.
- 1972-1978: Highschool, Ede, the Netherlands
- April 21, 1960: born in Bennekom, the Netherlands
Hans Bodlaender is married, has three children, two grand-children, has the Dutch nationality, and lives in Houten (near Utrecht), the Netherlands.