Wilfried Imrich (born May 25, 1941) is an Austrian mathematician working mainly in

graph theory In mathematics, graph theory is the study of ''graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of '' vertices'' (also called ''nodes'' or ''points'') which are conne ...

. He is known for his work on

graph product In graph theory, a graph product is a binary operation on Graph (discrete mathematics), graphs. Specifically, it is an operation that takes two graphs and and produces a graph with the following properties: * The vertex (graph theory), vertex ...

s, and authored the books ''Product Graphs: Structure and Recognition'' (Wiley, 2000, with

Sandi Klavžar Sandi Klavžar (born 5 February 1962) is a Slovenian mathematician working in the area of graph theory and its applications. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. Education Klavžar received his Ph.D. from the University ...

), ''Topics in graph theory: Graphs and their Cartesian Products'' (AK Peters, 2008, with Klavžar and Douglas F. Rall), and ''Handbook of Product Graphs'' (2nd ed., CRC, 2011, with Klavžar and Richard Hammack). Imrich earned his doctorate from the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

in 1965, under the joint supervision of Nikolaus Hofreiter and

Edmund Hlawka Edmund Hlawka (November 5, 1916, Bruck an der Mur, Styria – February 19, 2009) was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Hlawka did most of his work at the Vienna University of Technology. He was also a visiting professo ...

. He has worked as a researcher for IBM in Vienna, as an assistant professor at

TU Wien TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...

and the

University at Albany, SUNY The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...

, as a postdoctoral researcher at

Lomonosov University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

, and, since 1973, as a full professor at the

University of Leoben The University of Leoben (German: ''Montanuniversität Leoben'') in Austria is the country's university for mining, metallurgy and materials. It was founded on 4 November 1840 as the ''Steiermärkisch-Ständische Montanlehranstalt'' in Vordernbe ...

in Austria. He retired in 2009, becoming a

professor emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

at Leoben.Project member biography
EuroGIGA, retrieved 2016-12-10. He is on board of advisors of the journal ''

Ars Mathematica Contemporanea ''Ars Mathematica Contemporanea'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering discrete mathematics in connection with other branches of mathematics. It is published by the University of Primorska together with the Society of Mathematic ...

''. Since 2012 he has been a member of the

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.Member profile

, retrieved 2016-12-10.

References

External links

Personal web site"Wilfried Imrich's 75th Birthday Colloquium"

, ''Ars Math Contemp'' 11(2016) XXI {{DEFAULTSORT:Imrich, Wilfried Austrian mathematicians Graph theorists University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of TU Wien University at Albany, SUNY faculty Living people 1941 births Academic staff of the University of Leoben Members of Academia Europaea