Juraj Hromkovič (born 1958) is a Slovak

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and Professor at

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. He is the author of numerous monographs and scientific publications in the field of

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, and

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Biography

Hromkovič was born 1958 in

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...

. He studied at

Comenius University Comenius University in Bratislava ( sk, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is name ...

where he received his

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in 1986 ( Dr. rer. nat.), habilitated in 1989 (''Theoretical Cybernetics and Mathematical Informatics''), and worked as a

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from 1989 to 1990. From 1989 to 1994, he was a

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at the group of ''Burkhard Monien'' at the

University of Paderborn Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...

. In 1994, he received a professorship at the ''Institute of Informatics'' at the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

. From 1997 to 2003, he led the ''Chair of Computer Science 1'' at

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich for Information Technology and Education. Next to active research in various fields of

theoretical computer science Theoretical computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory. It is difficult to circumsc ...

(about 170 publications), the main focus of his work lies on education for teachers of Computer Science and the illustration of basics of Computer Science to non-professionals.

References

External links

Homepage
of the chair of Information Technology and Education at

Homepage
of the Center for Informatics Education (ABZ) of

Juraj Hromkovič
at

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