Carol T. Zamfirescu

Carol T. Zamfirescu is a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Universiteit Gent (University of Ghent). She holds a Dipl.-Math from TU Dortmund and a Ph.D. from UGent. Her research focuses on graph theory, combinatorics, and discrete mathematics, with particular emphasis on Hamiltonian cycles, planar graphs, and algorithmic graph theory.

Educations:

• Dipl.-Math (TU Dortmund)
• Ph.D. (Universiteit Gent)

Research interests span structural graph theory, including topics like hypohamiltonian graphs, cycle spectra, and graph embeddings. She is a member of the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) W&T1 Fellowship panel on Mathematical Sciences since 2023, evaluating doctoral/postdoctoral fellowships.

Her work often involves collaborations with computational methods, exploring properties of graphs such as fault-tolerance, spanning trees, and cycle covers. Recent contributions include studies on platypus graphs, edge-Kempe equivalence, and the Gromov-Hausdorff metric applied to graph spaces.

Her research also addresses foundational questions in graph theory, such as the existence of non-hamiltonian polyhedra and the structure of cubic graphs with unique longest cycles. She has contributed to improving bounds for hypohamiltonian graphs and their computational generation.