Ineke Sluiter

Ineke Sluiter (born 13 November 1959) is a Dutch classicist and professor of Greek language and literature at Leiden University since 1998. Her research focuses on language, literature, and public discourse in classical antiquity. She was a winner of the 2010 Spinoza Prize and was awarded the in 2024. Sluiter served as president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences between 2020 and 2022.

Career Sluiter was born in Amsterdam on 13 November 1959. She studied Greek and Latin language and culture at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and graduated in 1984. Sluiter obtained her doctorate cum laude from the same university in 1990. Her dissertation was entitled Ancient grammar in context. Contributions to the study of ancient linguistic thought. Between 1984 and 1997 she was a lecturer and researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, she was a Junior Fellow at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington DC, 1994/5) and spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, 1996/7). In 1998 she became professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University. She was one of the founders and continues to be the academic director of the national Anchoring Innovation programme, the Gravitation Grant research agenda of OIKOS that is financially supported by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (2017–2027). From 2007 to 2011, Sluiter served as Chair of the Board for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

In 2010 she was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2,5 million euro grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to be spent on new research.

Sluiter has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 2012. In 2013 she was elected a member of Academia Europaea. In July 2017 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. In 2018, Sluiter was elected as vice-president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018–2020). In June 2020, she succeeded Wim van Saarloos as president,

In 2024, Sluiter was awarded the for her work on Greek language and literature and for her services in the advisory body of the Royal Palace of Amsterdam Foundation.

Selected works