 Lutz was a student of André Weil at the University of Strasbourg, from 1934 to 1938.She earned a thesis for her research for him, on elliptic curves over formula_1-adic fields.She completed her doctorate ("thèse d’état") on formula_1-adic Diophantine approximation at the University of Grenoble in 1951 under the supervision of Claude Chabauty; her dissertation was "Sur les approximations diophantiennes linéaires formula_1-adiques".