Izak (Ieke) Moerdijk studied Mathematics, Philosophy and General
Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD in
Mathematics from the same institution in 1985, with the distinction Cum
Laude. Subsequently he worked at the University of Chicago and at the
University of Cambridge, before joining the Mathematics Department of
the University of Utrecht in 1988, where he has been a Professor of
Topology since 1996.

Moerdijk was awarded a Huygens Fellowship from NWO
in 1986 and a PIONIER grant, again from NWO, in 1995. He held visiting
positions at Cambridge (St John's College), Montreal (McGill
University), Sydney (University) and Aarhus, among others.
Moerdijk was elected member of the KNAW (Royal Academy of Arts
and Sciences) in 2006.

Moerdijk's current research interests include algebraic and
differential topology (operads, Lie groupoids, ...), and applications
of topological structures in mathematical logic. He is the coauthor of
several well-known books, including "Sheaves in Geometry and Logic"
with S. Mac Lane (Springer-Verlag, 1992, 1994), and "Introduction to
Foliations and Lie Groupoids" with J. Mrcun (Cambridge UP, 2003).