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 algorithmics,

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, and

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Biography

Hromkovič was born 1958 in

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. He studied at Comenius University where he received his Ph.D. 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 visiting professor at the group of ''Burkhard Monien'' at the University of Paderborn. 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, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

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

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

. 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

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(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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