Wieringa received his Master of Arts in 1987 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science for the thesis Machine intelligence and explication, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1990 under supervision of Reinder Pieter van de Riet for the thesis Algebraic Foundations for Dynamic Conceptual Models.
Early 1990s he continued to work at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Vrije Universiteit. In 1998 he joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Twente as Professor of Information Systems. Among his doctoral students was Erik Proper.
From 2006 to 2011 he was Scientific Director of the School of Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS), and from 2009 to 2012 he headed the computer science department at the University of Twente.
Wieringa has been Associate Editor in Chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Software journal from 2004 to 2007, and is member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Business Information Systems, the Journal of Software and Systems Modeling, and the Requirements Engineering Journal.
