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Zoran Vondraček

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Zoran Vondraček
Vondraček in Oberwolfach, 2022
NationalityCroatian
Alma materUniversity of Florida
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Zagreb
Thesis Special classes of Excessive Functions Satisfying Harnack's Principle  (1990)
Doctoral advisorMurali 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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ Curriculum vitae, University of Zagreb, retrieved 2024-03-23
  2. ^ Zoran Vondraček at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b Biography (in Croatian), Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, retrieved 2024-03-23
  4. ^ Dobitnici nagrade HAZU [Winners of the HAZU award] (in Croatian), Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, retrieved 2024-03-23
  5. ^ Dobitnici Državne nagrade za znanost [Winners of the National Science Award] (in Croatian), Republic of Croatia Ministry of Science and Education, retrieved 2024-03-23
  6. ^ Preeminence Award announcement (in Croatian), University of Zagreb Faculty of Science, retrieved 2024-03-23
  7. ^ Nagrada "Andrija Mohorovičić" (in Croatian), University of Zagreb, retrieved 2024-03-23
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