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Looijenga studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam beginning in 1965, and earned a master"s degree there in 1971.
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Eduard Looijenga
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He was a professor of mathematics at Utrecht University until his retirement in 2013. 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 Doctor of Philosophy in 1974 under the supervision of Nicolaas Kuiper. 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. In 2013, a conference in honor of his retirement was held at Utrecht University.
