Graduated in top 10% (cum laude) from the best university college of The Netherlands, according to Elsevier.
Brought hands-on science to >4,500 primary and secondary school students as a volunteer during masters degree, and was top 5 nominee for national let's talk science volunteer award (Canada).
Earned $22,000/yr income during masters degree from positions in teaching, research and administration within the university, plus $3,000/yr + €5,000/yr in scholarships.
Special Skills
Algorithmic Design: design patterns, asymptotic and bottleneck analysis.
Analysis: Essentialise a system to allow efficient analysis of options and ideas, through process and dynamic models.
Public Speaking: an experienced public speaker, debater and presenter who coached and judged high school and college level public speakers.
Communication: Translate between fields to cut communication overhead.
Team Engagement: using team members' personal motivations to improve productivity.
Team Contribution: a valued sparring partner, mentor, editor/proofreader and all-purpose problem solver.
Languages: Fluent speech and writing in Dutch and English; conversational and reading comprehension in Spanish, German and French.
Work Experience
Markland College (2011–present): secondary school Mathematics teacher (1 HAVO/VMBO-T, 3 HAVO).
Simon Fraser University (2008–2011): TA algorithms & data structures, programming (Python for non-programmers), discrete maths (twice) and animal ecology.
Anglia Network Europe (2007– 2008; 2011): volunteer English teacher at asylum seeker centre & assistant teacher at summer schools & extracurricular lessons.
Education
M.Sc. Computing Science
Simon Fraser University (2008–2011; 3.83/4.0)
PgCert. Modelling of Complex Social Systems, IRMACS
MITACS Step workshops: technical & business writing, project management, team management, networking
Instructional skills (3 days) and science communication workshops
Let's Talk Science outreach volunteer, trainer and coordinator
Netherlands Worldwide Students digital platform board member and project coordinator.
B.Sc. Liberal Arts & Sciences (Cum Laude)
Roosevelt Academy (2005–2008; 3.78/4.0)
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate
Summer/extracurricular courses: debating & Latin
Committees: housing, academic affairs (vice-president; secretary; university board of studies member), debate society, society association
V. Mago, V. Dabbaghian, L. Bakker, A. Alimadad, P. Borwein & E.I. Papageorgiou. “Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Cellular Automata: A Hybrid Approach for Social Systems Modeling,” submitted to Applied Soft Computing, special issue on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.
L. Bakker, W. Hare, H. Khosravi & B. Ramadanovic. “A Social Network Model of Investment Behaviour in the Stock Market,” Physica A, Vol. 389 (Issue 6), 15 March 2010, pp. 1223–1229.
Other Academic
L. Bakker. “Homeless outreach in the Tri Cities: is something social going on?” Master Thesis, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
M. Tayebi, L. Bakker, V. Dabbaghian & U. Glaesser. “Locating Central Actors in Co-offending Networks,” 2011 International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2011).
L. Bakker, B. Heung, S. Dragicevic, M.G. Schmidt. “Spatial Disaggregation of the Universal Soil Loss Equation using a Cellular Automata Approach,” Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers, 2011 Annual Meeting (WDCAG 2011), March 2011, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada.
L. Bakker, W. Hare & B. Ramadanovic. “Trust Relationships Can Delay Market Stability,” poster at First Annual Modelling of Complex Social Systems Symposium, September 2009.
L. Bakker. “Feature-Solution Graphs,” Independent Research Project report, Roosevelt Academy (Middelburg), Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
J. Resovsky, L.F.L.M. Bakker, J.J.G. Karreman, L.L. Ngwa, S.A.J.G. Nijsingh, G. Schout, F. Sulu-Gambari, T. van Wijck & R.D. van der Weijden. “Prioritizing R&D for seven radioactive waste disposal options — an independent, interactive approach,” Proc. Int. Conf. Radioactive Waste Disposal in Geological Formations (RepoSafe-07), Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS), 2007.
