Carsten Thomassen

Carsten Thomassen ( born August 22, 1948 in Grindsted ) is a Danish mathematician who is engaged in graph theory.

Thomassen studied at the University of Aarhus (Candidate title in 1972 Gabriel Dirac ) and in 1976 received his doctorate at the University of Waterloo with Daniel Younger ( Paths and cycles in graphs ). He was an assistant at Aarhus, from 1972 assistant professor and lecturer from 1976.

Since 1981 he has been Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby.

From 1994 to 2001 he was also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo and he was a visiting professor, among others, at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Otago, the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge (2008), Louisiana State University, the University of Bielefeld, the University Claude Bernard in Lyon and the TU Chemnitz.

From 1979, he was co-editor and from 1989 a senior editor of the Journal of Graph Theory. Since 2002 he has been editor of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. In 1990 he became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and in 1995 a Knight of the Dannebrog Order. In 1993 he was awarded the Lester Randolph Ford Award.

In 1990 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto ( graphs, random walks and electric networks )

Writings

• Bojan Mohar: Graphs on surfaces, Johns Hopkins University Press 2001