Tomaž PISANSKI

As an undergraduate exchange student in Nancy, Pisanski learned the basics of formal languages and graph theory. In his MSc and PhD, he upgraded his knowledge of graphs to topological graph theory and later to some other branches of discrete mathematics, such as configurations and abstract polytopes as well as applications of graphs to mathematical chemistry and synthetic biology. Between 1983-2003, he was a visiting professor (teaching at least for a semester) in Croatia, Italy, the USA, Canada, Austria, and New Zealand. He has been the recipient of several scholarships from Ljubljana, Belgrade, France, and the USA, including the Fulbright Travel Grant and IREX scholarship. He has conducted various research projects funded by ARRS, ESF, NSF, etc. He was the principal investigator for an ESF EUROCORE project GReGAS (2011-2014), and offered mathematical support for the international ERA SynBio project (2014-2017) with the project leader, dr. Roman Jerala. Dr. Pisanski is the Chair of the 8th European Congress of Mathematics that will take place in 2021 in Slovenia.

Along with Dr. Dragan Marušič, Pisanski is a Founding Editor of Ars Mathematica Contemporanea (AMC). The electronic version of the journal is free of charge both for authors and readers. AMC covers Algebra and Number Theory, Discrete Math, Geometry and Topology, and Theoretical Computer Science.

1949 Born in Ljubljana

1969–70 Exchange student, University of Nancy, France

1972 BSc, University of Ljubljana; MSc in Mathematics; MSc in Computer Science, Penn State University

1981 PhD in graph theory

1972– Various positions at the University of Ljubljana

1991 Head of the Department of Theoretical Computer Science at IMFM (1991-2011)

2004– Head of Department of Information Sciences

Important Works

T. Pisanski, B. Servatius (2013) Configurations from a Graph Theoretical Viewpoint, Springer.

M. Conder, I. Hubard, T. Pisanski (2008) Constructions for chiral polytopes. J. Lond. Math. Soc. 2(77): 115--129.

A. Graovac, T. Pisanski (1991) On the Wiener index of a graph. J. Math. Chem. 8, 53--62.

Izbrane nagrade | Selected Awards

1967 IMO, Bronze medal

1976 Kidrič Fund Distinction

1985 Kidrič Fund Distinction

2005 Order of Merit of the Republic of Slovenia

2012 Member of the Academia Europaea

2015 Zois Award