Henk van der Vorst

Hendrik Albertus van der Vorst, known as Henk, is a Dutch mathematician born on 5 May 1944 in Venlo and Emeritus Professor of Numerical Analysis at Utrecht University. According to the Institute for Scientific Information, his paper on the BiCGSTAB method was the most cited paper in the field of mathematics in the 1990s. His major contributions are preconditioned iterative methods, among them the ICCG method developed with Koos Meijerink, the BiCGSTAB and GMRESR Krylov subspace methods, the latter with Kees Vuik, and the Jacobi-Davidson method with Gerard Sleijpen for ordinary, generalized and nonlinear eigenproblems. He has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2002, is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and was made a knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2006. He wrote the book Iterative Krylov Methods for Large Linear Systems.