Biography:Zoran Vondraček
Zoran Vondraček | |
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.jpg) Vondraček in Oberwolfach, 2022 | |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Alma mater | University of Florida |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Zagreb |
| Thesis | Special classes of Excessive Functions Satisfying Harnack's Principle (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Murali Rao |
Zoran Vondraček (born July 28, 1959) is a Croatian mathematician specializing in Lévy processes, transformed Brownian motions, and probabilistic potential theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Zagreb.
Education and career
Vondraček graduated from the University of Zagreb in 1982, and obtained a master's degree in mathematics there in 1986.[1] He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 1990 under the supervision of Murali Rao.[2] In 1992 Vondraček was made assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Zagreb. He became an associate professor in 1997, and a full professor in 2002.[3]
Vondraček is a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the American Mathematical Society, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[3]
Recognition
In 2006 Vondraček received the Award for Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, alongside oceanographer Nada Krstulović and marine biologist Mladen Šolić.[4] He won the 2010 Croatian National Science Award (hr) in the category of natural sciences, alongside Nevenko Bilić and Kristian Vlahoviček.[5] In 2019 he received the University of Florida's Preeminence Award alongside mathematician Hrvoje Šikić.[6] In 2020 he won the Andrija Mohorovičić Prize of the University of Zagreb.[7]
References
- ↑ Curriculum vitae, University of Zagreb, https://web.math.pmf.unizg.hr/~vondra/vita.html, retrieved 2024-03-23
- ↑ Zoran Vondraček at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 (in hr) Biography, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, https://www.info.hazu.hr/clanovi/vondracek-zoran/, retrieved 2024-03-23
- ↑ (in hr) Dobitnici nagrade HAZU, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, https://www.info.hazu.hr/nagrade-i-natjecaji/dobitnici-nagrade-hazu/, retrieved 2024-03-23
- ↑ (in hr) Dobitnici Državne nagrade za znanost, Republic of Croatia Ministry of Science and Education, https://mzo.gov.hr/istaknute-teme/drzavne-nagrade/drzavne-nagrade-za-znanost/dobitnici-drzavne-nagrade-za-znanost/210, retrieved 2024-03-23
- ↑ (in hr) Preeminence Award announcement, University of Zagreb Faculty of Science, https://www.pmf.unizg.hr/aktualnosti?@=1l8u2#, retrieved 2024-03-23
- ↑ (in hr) Nagrada "Andrija Mohorovičić", University of Zagreb, https://www.unizg.hr/istrazivanje/istrazivanje-i-inovacije/nagrade-za-posebna-postignuca/nagrada-andrija-mohorovicic/, retrieved 2024-03-23
External links
- Home page
- Zoran Vondraček publications indexed by Google Scholar
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