Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Nijmegen University in 1992.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Nijmegen University in 1992.
From 2000 to early 2013 he was a software architect for Microsoft where he headed the Cloud Programmability Team. He then founded Applied Duality Incorporated. in 2013. Before that, he was an associate professor at Utrecht University.
Meijer"s research has included the areas of functional programming (particularly Haskell) compiler implementation, parsing, programming language design, eXtensible Markup Language, and foreign function interfaces.
His work at Microsoft included C#, Visual Basic, LINQ, Volta, and the Reactive programming framework (Reactive Extensions) for.NET. Meijer lived in the Netherlands Antilles until the age 14 when his father retired from his job and the family moved back to the Netherlands. In 2011 Erik Meijer was appointed part-time professor of Cloud Programming within the Software Engineering Research Group at Delft University of Technology.
Since 2013 he is also Honorary Professor of Programming Language Design at the School of Computer Science of the University of Nottingham, associated with the Functional Programming Laboratory. In early 2013 Erik Meijer left Microsoft and started Applied Duality Incorporated.
He teaches a course on the MOOC provider Coursera, called Principles of Reactive Programming, and a course on edX called Introduction to Functional Programming.
He is also member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Queue Editorial Board.