Robert Jan van Glabbeek is a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow (Professor) at the University of Edinburgh since 2022. He also holds unpaid adjunct and affiliate positions, including as an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales (2004–present) and a Research Affiliate at Stanford University (2002–present). M.Sc. in Mathematics (cum laude) from the University of Leiden (1984) Ph.D. in Comparative concurrency semantics and refinement of actions from the Free University, Amsterdam (1990) His research focuses on concurrency theory , formal methods , verification of distributed systems , and temporal logic . He has supervised numerous students and interns, co-chaired Ph.D. and habilitation committees, and developed courses on concurrency theory and automata & complexity from 1988 to 2020, including a guest course at the University of Twente in 2018. He has received prestigious awards: Foreign Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (2015), the CONCUR test-of-time award (2020), and the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship (2022). His editorial roles include Editor in Chief of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (since 2009) and organizing committees for 40 conferences. He has filed two patents in document workflow systems (US7120699, US7356611) and served on the steering committee of MARS (since 2017). His invited talks span over 30 international workshops and symposia.









