Zoran Vondraček | |
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Nationality | Croatian |
Alma mater | University of Florida |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Zagreb |
Thesis | Special classes of Excessive Functions Satisfying Harnack's Principle (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Murali Rao |
Zoran Vondraček (born July 28, 1959) is a Croatian mathematician specializing in Lévy processes, transformed Brownian motions, and probabilistic potential theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Zagreb.
Vondraček graduated from the University of Zagreb in 1982, and obtained a master's degree in mathematics there in 1986. [1] He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 1990 under the supervision of Murali Rao. [2] In 1992 Vondraček was made assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Zagreb. He became an associate professor in 1997, and a full professor in 2002. [3]
Vondraček is a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the American Mathematical Society, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [3]
In 2006 Vondraček received the Award for Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, alongside oceanographer Nada Krstulović and marine biologist Mladen Šolić. [4] He won the 2010 Croatian National Science Award in the category of natural sciences, alongside Nevenko Bilić and Kristian Vlahoviček. [5] In 2019 he received the University of Florida's Preeminence Award alongside mathematician Hrvoje Šikić. [6] In 2020 he won the Andrija Mohorovičić Prize of the University of Zagreb. [7]