In February 2009, Loek Cleophas joined the FASTAR and Espresso research groups at the University of Pretoria’s Department of Computer Science, which focus on research in finite automata systems and software engineering respectively. His research is funded by a University of Pretoria Post-doctoral Fellowship and an NRF Free-standing Post-doctoral Fellowship.
He completed his dissertation in December 2007 and obtained his doctorate from the Eindhoven University of Technology in April 2008.