Jos Maubach studied Mathematics at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands) where he obtained his MSc in 1986 with the distinction cum laude. He then started his PhD research at the same university and obtained his doctorate in 1991 with his thesis ‘Iterative methods for non-linear partial differential equations’. In 1998, Jos Maubach was appointed at Eindhoven University of Technology where he currently is an assistant professor with the Centre for Analysis, Scientific Computing, and Applications (CASA) at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science.