Bojan MOHAR

Bojan Mohar is a Slovenian mathematician whose primary research area is graph theory with combinatorics. He is also active in theoretical computer science and mathematical chemistry. He published nearly 300 scientific papers, one monograph, several chapters in other monographs, three university textbooks, and many articles in conference proceedings. He has been a plenary speaker at more than 60 international conferences. He serves on editorial boards in his area's most important scientific journals, including his leading role as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B.

The monograph with Carsten Thomassen about graphs on surfaces [B. Mohar and C. Thomassen, Graphs on Surfaces, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001] became the standard reference on topological graph theory.

1980 Assistant at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at University of Ljubljana

1986 PhD

1986–88 Postdoctoral study in Canada and USA

1988 Assistant Professor

1991 Associate Professor

1996 Full Professor UL

2003–05 Dean

2005 Tier I Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

* Keeps dual position as scientific councillor at the IMFM in Ljubljana

Important Works

B. Mohar, C. Thomassen (2001) Graphs on Surfaces, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.

B. Mohar (1999) A linear time algorithm for embedding graphs in an arbitrary surface, SIAM J. Discrete Math 12:6-26.

M. DeVos, L. Goddyn, B. Mohar (2009) A generalization of Kneser’s Addition Theorem, Adv. Math. 220:1531-1548.

Selected Awards

2020 AMS Fellow, American Mathematical Society

2018 John L. Synge Award, Royal Society of Canada

2018 SIAM Fellow, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

2010 Euler Medal, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications

2009 Ambassador of Science Award, Slovenia

2008 International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry

2005, 2012 Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory, Tier I 1999 IAS

1990 Boris Kidrič Prize, Slovenian Prize for Science

1988 Fulbright Scholar