Jiří Matoušek#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 3178 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Homepage(s): | http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~matousek |
Jiří Matoušek passed away March 9, 2015.
Positions Held
- 2012 - present Professor (part time), ETH Zürich
- 1996 - 2011 visiting position every year, 3-4 months each year, ETH Zürich
- 2000 - present Full Professor, Charles University in Prague
- 1995 - 2000 Associate Professor (docent), Charles University in Prague
- 1987 - 1995 Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Charles University in Prague
- 1992 Humboldt Research Fellow, Free University Berlin, 12 months
- 1991 Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Discrete geometry
- Combinatorics
- Metric embeddings
- Algorithms
- Topological methods
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Prize of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (for a joint paper with M. Loebl)
- 1996 Prize of the Second European Mathematical Congress for young mathematicians, Budapest
- 2000 Prize of the Czech Learned Society for Young Scientists (2000)
- 2006 Elected member of the Czech Learned Society
- 2011 Book "Thirty-three Miniatures" on the Choice's "Outstanding Academic Titles" list
- 2011 - 2015 Coinvestigator of ERC Advanced Grant DISCONV (principal investigator Imre Bárány
- Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin (1998) and European Math. Congress (Budapest, 1996)
- 1998 Invited tutorial at the 39. IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)
