Rene van Lingen

Rene van Lingen started his undergraduate degree at the United States Military Academy at West Point and finished with a BSE in nuclear engineering from Arizona State University (ASU). He took additional undergraduate and graduate classes in physics, mechanical engineering and pre-medicine at ASU before earning an MAT in mathematics and education from Stanford University. He went on to Cambridge in the United Kingdom (UK) to do graduate work in the history and philosophy of mathematics and physics. His dissertation was “William Rowan Hamilton: the Irish Lagrange.”

Prior to joining OHS, he taught mathematics at PSAP/CTY-ASU and CTY-Franklin and Marshall, PA; the American Renaissance School/BOCES in White Plains, NY; Anglia University, UK; International School-Eerde, The Netherlands; California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA; Kabul University, Afghanistan; and Foothill-De Anza Colleges, Los Altos Hills, CA.

Rene loves being with his family (2 boys ages 10 and 12, a 20-year-old daughter, and a dancing wife), enjoys studying critical decision-making and neuroscience, learning Klingon and piano (with not much success), and reading biographies.