Eelco van Asperen (11 April 1965,

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– 31 May 2013) was a Dutch

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. and associate professor at the

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, at the School of Economics. On the first webpages created by

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, Van Asperen was credited as having contributed to the "WWW project". Van Asperen "ported the line-mode browser othe PC under PC-NFS; developed a

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version." Van Asperen published several articles in scientific journals, mostly in the field of

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and

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. In 2009, he obtained his PhD at Erasmus University with the dissertation
Essays on Port, Container, and Bulk Chemical Logistics Optimization
'.

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