Bela Bollobas#
| Membership Number: | 4451 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1970 - today Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
- 1996 - today Jabie Hardin Chair of Excellence in Combinatorics, University of Memphis
- 2006 - today Honorary Professor, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
- 1971 - 1996 Lecturer and Reader, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge
- 1966 - 1970 Research Scientist, Mathematical Research Institute, Budapest
- 2005 Visiting Researcher for six months, Microsoft Research, Microsoft, Redmond
- 2004 Visiting Professor for four months, ETH Zurich
- 1996 Member, Fall semester, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 1969 Visiting Fellow, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
- 1967 - 1968 Guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Fields of Scholarship
- Extremal graph theory
- Random graphs
- Extremal set systems
- Probabilistic combinatorics
- Polynomials of graphs and knots
- Percolation
- Random cellular automata
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2013 Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2013 Honorary Doctorate, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- 2017 Szechenyi Prize [Prize of the Republic of Hungary for academic achievements]]
