… Dirk Huylebrouck holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Gent, Belgium. He worked at universities in the Congo for about eight years until a diplomatic incident between Belgium and Congo interrupted his stay. He went to the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and the European Division of Maryland University, until the majority of his American (military) students were sent to Iraq. He returned to Africa, to Burundi, but for only three years, because of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. From 1996 until his retirement in 2022 he taught mathematics at the Faculty of Architecture of the KU Leuven (Belgium). In 2002 he won the American Mathematical association’s Lester Ford Award for best mathematical paper. From 1997 until 2017 he edited the column "The Mathematical Tourist" in the journal
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