Tomaž Pisanski

Tomaž Pisanski is a Slovenian mathematician currently serving as Professor at the University of Primorska since 2017. Previously, he held academic positions at the University of Ljubljana, including Professor of Discrete and Computational Mathematics (1993–2017), Associate Professor (1987–1993), and Assistant Professor (1982–1987).

Dr. Pisanski earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Ljubljana (1981), an M.S. in Computer Science from Penn State University (1979), and an M.S. in Mathematics from Ljubljana (1979). His research spans discrete mathematics, graph theory, combinatorial geometry, and applications in chemistry and bioinformatics.

Professional Activities:

• Project Leader for ESF EUROCORES EuroGIGA/GReGAS (2011–2014)
• Founding editor of Ars Mathematica Contemporanea (2007–present)
• Member of AMS, SIAM, ACM, and European Mathematical Society Ethics Committee (2010–)
• Active participant in over 70 conferences across 20 countries

Honors and Awards:

• Zois Award (2015)
• Member of Academia Europaea (2012)
• Order of Merit of the Republic of Slovenia (2005)
• Neil R. Grabois Professor of Mathematics (2003)
• Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications (2010)

Advising Experience: Dr. Pisanski has advised or co-advised 16 Ph.D. students (11 in Mathematics, 5 in Computer Science) and served as external examiner for numerous committees internationally.