Eduard Looijenga

{{Short description|Dutch mathematician (born 1948)}}

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Eduard Jacob Neven Looijenga (born 30 September 1948, Zaandam)[http://albumacademicum.uva.nl/id/id001143 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.[https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/4490 Member profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211945/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/4490 |date=2016-03-03 }}, KNAW, retrieved 2015-01-26. He was a professor of mathematics at Utrecht University until his retirement in 2013.[http://www.projects.science.uu.nl/singularlife/Singular_life/Singular_life.html A singular life: in honour of Eduard Looijenga] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065942/http://www.projects.science.uu.nl/singularlife/Singular_life/Singular_life.html |date=2016-03-04 }}, 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.[https://archive.today/20150127012318/http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~looij101/CV_%26_More.html Curriculum vitae], retrieved 2015-01-26.{{mathgenealogy|id=49687}} 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.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list 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.