Izak Moerdijk#
| Membership Number: | 3848 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uu.nl/staff/IMoerdijk/0 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Distinguished University Professor, Utrecht University
- 2011 - 2015 Chair of Algebra and Topology, Radboud University Nijmegen
- 2004 - present professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Sheffield, UK (part time)
- 2002 - 2011 Professor of Mathematics (Chair of Topology), University of Utrecht
- 1995 - 2002 Professor of Mathematics (Personal Chair of Algebraic Topology), University of Utrecht
- 1988 - 1995 Associate Professor of Mathematics ("Univeristair Hoofddocent"), University of Utrecht
- 1987 - 1988 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago
- 1986 - 1987 Fellow Commoner, Peterhouse College, Cambrridge
- 1984 - 1985 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, McGill University, Montreal
- Visiting professorships of one semester: St John's College Cambridge (1991), Aarhus(1994)
Fields of Scholarship
- Category theory
- Algebraic topology
- Logic
- Topos theory
- Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Spinoza Prize, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- 2011 Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Acad'emie des Sciences (Paris)
- 2006 Elected member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science (KNAW)
- 1995 Pionier Grant, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- 1985 Huygens Fellowship, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
