Maarten de Rijke is chaired Professor in the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. He has previously held positions at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam and at the University of Warwick.

His current focus is on intelligent web information access, with projects on search and discovery for informal text, vertical search engines, question answering, weakly or semi-structured documents, and multilingual information. Application areas include media analysis, scientific literature, cultural heritage, and political information.

He has published over 400 papers, has published or edited over a dozen books, is editor for various journals and book series, and a current or former coordinator of evaluation efforts of the Crosslingual Web Track at CLEF and Blog Track at TREC. He is a co-founder of, and consultant to, Talking Trends, a spin-off in the area of online media analysis.