Sandi Klavžar
Personal
Born: 1962, Ljubljana, SI; Spoken languages: Slovenian, English, German, Croatian and Serbian.
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, SI; M.S. in Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, SI; B.S. in Technical Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, SI.
Academic experience
Professor of Discrete and Computational Mathematics, University of Maribor; Professor of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana; Advisor of 10 Ph.D. students in Mathematics; External member of several Ph.D. and Habilitation committees: AU, FR, S&M; Longer research visits at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria and Universität Bielefeld, Germany.
Research fields
Discrete and Computational Mathematics, Combinatorics with Graph Theory, Applications of Discrete Mathematics in Chemistry, Tower of Hanoi Problems.
Professional experience/leadership
Chair of the Depatment of Mathematics, University of Maribor, SI, 1992 – 1994; Chair of the Department of Mathematics of Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, SI, 2003 – 2007; Member of the IAMC; Permanent researcher and project leader of Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, SI, 1990 –.
Professional activities
Organizer or member of organizing committees of numerous international scientific meetings; Member of international professional societies AMS and ICA; Member of editorial boards of European Journal of Combinatorics, MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, Asian-European Journal of Mathematics, and Ars Mathematicae Contemporanea; Guest editor of several special issues of international journal (MATCH Comm. Math. Comput. Chem., Discrete Appl. Math., Discrete Math., Discuss. Math. Graph Theory, European J. Combin.); Active participant at numerous conferences and scientific meetings and invited speaker at conferences in Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan.
Honors and grants
Slovenian national award (Zoisovo priznanje) for important scientific achievements in the area of graph theory, 2000; Slovenian national award (Zoisova nagrada) for highest achievements in mathematics, 2007.
Published work
Over 150 publications and 700 citations in MathSciNet.