I would like to express my warmest and deepest condolences to Fons’ family, friends, colleagues, and students. I was very fortunate to meet him, in 2008, during my Research Master at Tilburg University. Besides being my professor, first-year-paper and thesis supervisor, he also gave the laudation at my graduation, which was an honor for me. We last exchanged emails two weeks before his passing away. I had kindly asked him for a reference letter. Within days, he wrote to me to let me know that he had sent the letter. The news of Fons’ passing came as a shock and made me sad. However, I later realized that even though he isn’t any longer physically with us, he is and will be through his ideas, research, students, and all of those with whom he shared his life.
I would like to express my warmest and deepest condolences to Fons’ family, friends, colleagues, and students. I was very fortunate to meet him, in 2008, during my Research Master at Tilburg University. Besides being my professor, first-year-paper and thesis supervisor, he also gave the laudation at my graduation, which was an honor for me. We last exchanged emails two weeks before his passing away. I had kindly asked him for a reference letter. Within days, he wrote to me to let me know that he had sent the letter. The news of Fons’ passing came as a shock and made me sad. However, I later realized that even though he isn’t any longer physically with us, he is and will be through his ideas, research, students, and all of those with whom he shared his life.