Background
Sluiter was born in Amsterdam in 1959.
Sluiter was born in Amsterdam in 1959.
She studied Greek and Latin language and culture at the VU University Amsterdam and graduated in 1984.
Sluiter obtained her doctorate cum laude from the same university in 1990. Between 1984 and 1997 she was lecturer and researcher at VU University. In 1998 she became professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University.
In 2010 she was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2,5 million euro grant.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.