Bojan Mohar
Quick Facts
Biography
Bojan Mohar is a Slovenian and Canadian mathematician, specializing in graph theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Ljubljana and the holder of a Canada Research Chair in graph theory at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Education
Mohar received his Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana in 1986, under the supervision of Tomo Pisanski.
Research
Mohar's research concerns topological graph theory, algebraic graph theory, graph minors, and graph coloring.
With Carsten Thomassen he is the co-author of the book Graphs on Surfaces (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
Awards and honors
Mohar was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Ohio State University in 1988, and won the Boris Kidrič prize of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia in 1990. He has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering since 1999.