Oriol Serra is a full professor of Applied Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) since 1999. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Sciences from UPC (1988) and a degree in Mathematics from the Universitat de Barcelona (1983). His primary research areas include combinatorics, graph theory, and combinatorial number theory, with a focus on isoperimetric problems, Ramsey Theory, extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, and additive combinatorics. He has held leadership roles such as Chair of the Department of Mathematics (2011–2017), Vice-Dean of Research at the School of Mathematics (2007–2011), and member of the Executive Committee of the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (2012–2015). He has organized and participated in numerous international conferences and workshops, including the European Conference on Combinatorics (2017, 2019) and the British Combinatorial Conference (2019). His research spans foundational topics in discrete mathematics, with contributions to additive combinatorics, graph labeling, and probabilistic methods. Recent work includes studies on random walk mixing, Sidon set systems, and discrete Brunn-Minkowski inequalities. He has advised over 20 PhD students and numerous master’s students, contributing to the training of new researchers in combinatorics and theoretical computer science. His teaching includes courses on combinatorics, graph theory, and probability at the undergraduate and graduate levels at UPC. Oriol Serra is affiliated with the research group Geometric, Algebraic, and Probabilistic Combinatorics (GAPCOMB) and has been involved in multiple funded projects, including the Marie Curie fellowship GEOSUMSETS (2010–2012) and the Spanish-funded project GEOMETRÍA DISCRETA (2018–2020).






