He graduated in 1968 at the Eindhoven University of Technology advised by Jacques F. Benders for the thesis entitled "Decision rules in Markovian decision problems with Incompletely known transition probabilities" about Markov decision processes.
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Born in Terneuzen Van Damme received his MA in Mathematics at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1979, and his PhD in Technical Sciences in 1983 at the Eindhoven University of Technology for the thesis entitled "Refinements of the Nash Equilibrium Concept" under supervision of Jaap Wessels and Reinhard Selten.