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Peter B.L. Meijer received the master's degree in physics from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, in 1985. Since 1985, he has been with the group CAD for VLSI Circuits at the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. His current research interests include nonlinear multidimensional modeling, circuit simulation techniques, neural networks, and self-organizing systems.

[Update: Ph.D. obtained in 1996 on Dynamic Neural Networks, and currently no longer working at Philips.]