Education
Born in Veenendaal, Brinkhuis received his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics in 1981 at King"s College London under supervisor of Albrecht Fröhlich with the thesis Embedding Problems and Galois Modules.
Born in Veenendaal, Brinkhuis received his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics in 1981 at King"s College London under supervisor of Albrecht Fröhlich with the thesis Embedding Problems and Galois Modules.
After graduation he started his academic career as research associate at King"s College London on a SERC grant. In 1983 he moved back to The Netherlands and joined the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since early 2000s Brinkhuis is also teacher at the Tinbergen Institute.
In 2005 Brinkhuis and Vladimir Tikhomirov wrote Optimization: Insights and Applications an introduction to mathematical optimization, published by Princeton University Press.