Michael Drmota

Michael Drmota
Michael Drmota in 2014
Born	(1964-07-17) 17 July 1964 Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	TU Wien
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	TU Wien
Doctoral advisors	Robert Tichy

Michael Drmota (born July 17th, 1964 in Vienna) is an Austrian mathematician and professor at TU Wien.

He studied Mathematics at TU Wien and finished his Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Robert Tichy. At the same university he acquired habilitation in 1990 and is now full professor at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, where he also served as head of institute from 2004 to 2012.

He had visiting professor positions at UVSQ, University Paris VI, and University of Provence (Marseille). From 2013 until 2019 he was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation, from 2010 to 2013 president of the Austrian Mathematical Society. Since 2013 he is corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

1992 he won the Edmund und Rosa Hlawka-Preis of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and 1996 the Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society.

His research areas are number theory, enumerative combinatorics, analysis of algorithms and stochastic processes on combinatorial structures.

Selected Publications

• Michael, Drmota; Tichy, Robert F. (1997). Sequences, discrepancies and applications. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 1651. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-540-68333-9.
• Michael, Drmota (2009). Random trees: An interplay between combinatorics and probability. Springer-Verlag, Wien. ISBN 978-3-211-75357-6.

External Links

• Drmota's website at TU Wien
• Michael Drmota at the Mathematics Genealogy Project