Hugo J. Woerdeman received his Ph. D. in Mathematics from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1989. In that same year he was appointed assistant professor at the College of William and Mary. During his tenure there he received a 1995 Alumni Fellowship Award for "Excellence in Teaching", and he was awarded the title of Margaret L. Hamilton Professor of Mathematics. Since January 2005 he has been Professor and Department Head at Drexel University. Over the years, he has had long term stays at the University of California, San Diego, the George Washington University, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Techniques Avancees, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Universite Catholique de Louvain. Hugo J. Woerdeman is the author of 80+ articles in peer-reviewed journals including the Annals of Mathematics and Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society.