Jan van Leeuwen
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Jan van Leeuwen is a Dutch computer scientist
Computer scientist
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, a professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at the Utrecht University
Utrecht University
Utrecht University is a university in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 29,082 students in 2008, and employed 8,614 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors....

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Van Leeuwen completed his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Utrecht University in 1967, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1971 from the same institution under the supervision of Dirk van Dalen
Dirk van Dalen
Dirk van Dalen is a Dutch mathematician and historian of science.Van Dalen studied mathematics and physics and astronomy at the University of Amsterdam. Inspired by the work of LEJ Brouwer and Arend Heyting, he received his Ph.D...

. After postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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 and faculty positions at Stony Brook University and Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University
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, he returned to Utrecht as a faculty member in 1977. He was head of his department from 1977 to 1983, and again from 1991 to 1994, and dean from 1994 to 2009. His many doctoral students include fellow Utrecht faculty member and notable game software developer Mark Overmars
Mark Overmars
Markus Hendrik Overmars is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of game programming known for his game development application Game Maker. Game Maker lets people create computer games using a drag-and-drop interface. He is the head of the Center for Geometry, Imaging, and Virtual Environments...

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Van Leeuwen is an ISI highly cited researcher
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. Since 1992 he has been a member of the Royal Dutch Society of Science
Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen , located on the east side of the Spaarne in downtown Haarlem, Netherlands, was established in 1752 and is the oldest society for the sciences in the coutnry. The society has been housed in its present location, called Hodshon Huis, since...

, and in 2006 he was elected to the Academia Europaea
Academia Europaea
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. He was the editor of the Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science.

His son, Erik Jan van Leeuwen, is also an academic computer scientist, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen
University of Bergen
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, Norway.

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