Henk Barendregt (1947) holds the chair of Foundations of Mathematics and Computer Science at Nijmegen University, The Netherlands, and is adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Utrecht University mathematical logic, obtaining his Masters in 1968 and his Ph.D. in 1971, both cum laude, under Dirk van Dalen and Georg Kreisel. After a Postdoc period at Stanford University he held positions at Utrecht University and was visiting scholar at Darmstadt, Zürich (ETH), Siena and Kyoto. Barendregt is known for his work in lambda_calculus and type_theory. Since 1986 he is professor at Nijmegen University, where he and his group work on Formal Mathematics, a technology based on the idea of AUTOmated verification of MATHematics program of N. G. de Bruijn. For a list of results see the list of Freek Weedijk.

Awards Barendregt was elected member of the Academia Europaea (1992), Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (1995) and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (1997). In 1998 he obtained a generous seven year grant of the Board of Directors of Nijmegen university. In 2002 he was knighted in the Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. Barendregt obtained on February 6, 2003 the NWO Spinoza Award 2002, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands.