Scheepers was born in December 1957, in
Thabazimbi, South Africa. He completed his
Ph.D. thesis entitled
The Meager-Nowhere Dense Game at the
University of Kansas under the supervision of
Fred Galvin. His research interests cover
set theory and its relatives,
game theory,
cryptology, elementary
number theory and algorithmic phenomena in biology. He was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Boise State University (BSU) in 1988 and promoted to Associate Professor in 1993. He has been Professor in the Department of Mathematics at BSU since 1996. In 2016 he was part of a group at BSU that started an interdisciplinary course called
Transdisciplinary Research Methods. In 2019 Scheepers was one of the coaches for BSU's elective Vertically Integrated Projects including
Portable Secure Devices, a team aiming to develop methods to mitigate cyber-threats against active implantable
medical devices. Presently, Scheepers is studying
biological encryption mechanisms in certain
single-cell organisms in collaboration with researchers from the
University of Witten-Herdecke in
Germany, and the BSU Department of Biological Sciences. For this study, he has received grant funding from the
National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation has funded his research and curriculum activities on several occasions, including in 2005 for
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