Jan Kratochvíl (born 10 February 1959) is a Czech mathematician and computer scientist whose research concerns

graph theory In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of ''graph (discrete mathematics), graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of ''Vertex (graph ...

and

intersection graph In graph theory, an intersection graph is a graph that represents the pattern of intersections of a family of sets. Any graph can be represented as an intersection graph, but some important special classes of graphs can be defined by the types o ...

s. Kratochvíl was born on 10 February 1959 in

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

. He studied at

Charles University in Prague Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest universities in the world in continuous operation, the oldest university north of the ...

, earning a master's degree in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1987;Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2015-03-22. his dissertation, supervised by

Jaroslav Nešetřil Jaroslav Nešetřil (; born 13 March 1946) is a Czech mathematician. His research areas include combinatorics (structural combinatorics, Ramsey theory), graph theory (coloring problems, sparse structures), algebra (representation of structures, c ...

, combined graph theory with

coding theory Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and computer data storage, data sto ...

. He remained at Charles University as a faculty member, earned his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

in 1995, and was promoted to full professor in 2003. From 2003 to 2011 he chaired the department of applied mathematics at Charles University, and from 2012 to 2020 he was the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics there. Kratochvíl was the program chair and organizer of the 7th

International Symposium on Graph Drawing The International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) is an annual academic conference in which researchers present peer reviewed papers on graph drawing, information visualization of Network theory, network information, geometric graph theory, and re ...

, in 1999. From 2002 to 2010 he was president of the Czech Mathematical Society. Since March 2021, Kratochvíl is editor-in-chief of

Elsevier Elsevier ( ) is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell (journal), Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, ...

's '' Computer Science Review'' (Impact Factor: 7.7), together with Giuseppe Liotta and

.Computer Science Review - Editorial Board
retrieved 2021-03-17.

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