Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University

Professor Bojan Mohar is a distinguished mathematician and one of the leading contemporary figures in graph theory and discrete mathematics. He is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University and has also held a Canada Research Chair in graph theory. He received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Ljubljana in 1986 and has built an international career spanning topological graph theory, algebraic graph theory, graph minors, graph colouring and graph algorithms.

His research has made fundamental contributions to the theory of graphs on surfaces, planar graphs, list colouring, edge-colouring, nowhere-zero flows, Laplace eigenvalues of graphs and spectra of infinite graphs. With Carsten Thomassen, he co-authored Graphs on Surfaces (2001), a major monograph in topological graph theory published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

His work has influenced discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science and mathematical chemistry. His honours include the Euler Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, the John L. Synge Award of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellowship of SIAM, Fellowship of the American Mathematical Society and election to the Royal Society of Canada.