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Fred Neerhoff was born in Den Helder, The Netherlands. He received his M.Sc.
degree in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) and his Doctor of Science degree both from the
Delft University of Technology in 1971 and 1977, respectively.
In 1971 he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Applied Mathematics of the same university as an Assistant Professor.
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Next to his scientific interests he has always been active in
education per sé .
At the age of eighteen he started a practice as a private teacher
and from 1970 onwards, he became a part-time professional
teacher at the Polytechnics of Rotterdam and The Hague,
respectively.
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Right after his Doctor thesis, he was an invited Research Associate at
Northwestern University, Department of Civil Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
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After one year, he returned to the Laboratory of Electromagnetic Theory in
Delft, where he continued his research on elastodynamic diffraction problems and
taught a course in electromagnetics and vectoranalysis for students in
electrical engineering and applied mathematics, respectively.
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In the meantime, he studied psychology at the State University of Leiden and
also became a political labor activist for a couple of years.
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In 1984, he switched to the Laboratory of Network and System Theory where he was
appointed as an Associate Professor. From then, he became heavily involved in
teaching basic and advanced circuit theory and developed a complete
new circuit theory curriculum. In
it, nonlinearities and multi-terminal elements are an integral part of a fundamental and systematic approach.
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In 2000 he switched again, now to the Laboratory of Electronic Research, where
he until 2005 was involved in theoretical research on nonlinear dynamical systems.
In 2001 he held the General Chair of the Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic
Systems (NDES) conference. He is a member of the International
Scientific Committee of the NDES organization.
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At the end of 2004 he left the Delft University and became
an independent academic adviser in nonlinear system dynamics.
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As a philosopher, Fred Neerhoff is a radical Free-thinker and a distinct Atheist.
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