Michael Wilkinson

obtained an MSc in astronomy from the Kapteyn Laboratory, University of Groningen in 1993, after which he worked on image analysis of intestinal bacteria at the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, obtaining a PhD at the Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science, also in Groningen, in 1995. He was appointed as researcher at the Centre for High Performance Computing in Groningen working on simulating the intestinal microbial ecosystem on parallel computers. He worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (JBI) on image analysis of diatoms. He is currently senior lecturer at the JBI, working on morphological image analysis and especially connected morphology. He was board member of the Dutch IAPR chapter (NVPHBV) from 2005 to 2012, and is steering committee member of ISMM since 2009. He edited the book ``Digital Image Analysis of Microbes'' (John Wiley, UK, 1998) together with Frits Schut, and is co-author of about 120 scientific publications, mainly in the field of image analysis and mathematical morphology. Current interests include connectivity and connected filters, parallel computation, and applications to big data, in particular remote sensing and astronomy.