Education
Kaper was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1965 from the University of Groningen under the supervision of Adriaan Isak van de Vooren.
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Hans Gerard Kaper
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Career
He continues to hold adjunct professorships in mathematics and statistics at Georgetown University and in music at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he has been a long-term collaborator on the UIUC Computer Music Project. He taught briefly at Groningen before joining Argonne. At Argonne, he directed the Mathematics and Computer Science Division.
He is also the editor-in-chief of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics News, the newsletter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics).
Since retiring, Kaper has investigated the mathematics of climate change, and directs the National Science Foundation-funded Mathematics and Climate Research Network.
Achievements
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In 1989 he became correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. With Hans Engler of Georgetown, he is a co-author of the book Mathematics and Climate (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2013), which won the 2013 ASLI Choice Award of the Atmospheric Science Librarians International.
