Maarten de Rijke
Maarten de Rijke is an AI and information retrieval researcher at the University of Amsterdam. After research posts at CWI and Warwick, he joined Amsterdam in 1998, became a full professor in 2004, and became a distinguished university professor in 2018. His research connects search engines, recommendation systems, and conversational assistants. He also directs the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence, which brings universities and other organisations together. His posts cover generative retrieval and climate evidence search.
- Works
- 1,276
- Citations
- 30,251
- h-index
- 75
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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Before 1998
Training and research posts
De Rijke holds degrees in philosophy and mathematics and a doctorate in theoretical computer science. He held a postdoctoral position at CWI and a research fellowship at Warwick before moving to Amsterdam.
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1998–2018
An Amsterdam research career
He joined the University of Amsterdam in 1998. He became a full professor in 2004 and a distinguished university professor in 2018. He researches information retrieval and AI, including search and recommendation.
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2025
Generative information retrieval
In September and October 2025, his website advertised doctoral, postdoctoral, and research engineer positions for generative information retrieval. The posts place this work in the ERC project UNITE and the Amsterdam Information Retrieval Lab.
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2026
Search for climate evidence
A 2026 SIGIR tutorial with Flora Salim covered information retrieval for climate change impact. The tutorial followed MANILA workshops in 2024 and 2025. This work applies retrieval methods to finding and organising climate evidence.
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