Eduard Jacob Neven Looijenga (born 30 September 1948, Zaandam)Prof. dr. E.J.N. Looijenga, 1948 - at Album Academicum, Universiteit van Amsterdam is a Dutch mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic groups.Member profile , KNAW, retrieved 2015-01-26. He was a professor of mathematics at Utrecht University until his retirement in 2013.A singular life: in honour of Eduard Looijenga , Utrecht Univ., retrieved 2015-01-26.
Looijenga studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam beginning in 1965, and earned a master's degree there in 1971. He obtained a Dutch fellowship for two years of study at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France, and then returned to the University of Amsterdam, earning a Ph.D. in 1974 under the supervision of Nicolaas Kuiper., retrieved 2015-01-26. After postdoctoral research at the University of Liverpool, he took a faculty position at the University of Nijmegen in 1975, returned as a professor to the University of Amsterdam in 1987, and moved again to Utrecht in 1991. Since his 2013 retirement, he has also held a professorship at Tsinghua University.
In 1978, Looijenga was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. He became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995, and in 2012 he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-25. In 2013, a conference in honor of his retirement was held at Utrecht University.
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