Imre Z. Ruzsa - Curriculum Vitae#
University education, graduation: 1976, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Degrees: Candidate of Sciences (equivalent to a Ph. D.) 1979; Doctor of Sciences (D.Sci.), 1990 (both degrees were awarded by the Academy of Sciences)
Elected as a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 1998; elevated to full membership: 2004.
- Affiliation: Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (formerly called Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), since 1976.
- Present position: research professor (equivalent to full professorship) since 1989; head of the Department of Number Theory, since 1991.
- As a part-time job, also on the faculty of Central European University.
Visiting positions:
- 1983, three months: University of Bordeaux I (Talence, France)
- 1983/84 academic year: University of Ulm, Germany, with a stipendium of the Alexander van Humboldt-Stiftung
- 1985 spring term: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- 1989 fall term: DIMACS / Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
- 1990, one month: ZiF at the University of Bielefeld (in the workshop on combinatorics).
- 1992/93, three months: Laboratoire de Mathématiques Discretes, Univ. Marseille (Luminy)
- 1993, one month: DIMACS / Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Invited speaker at the European Congress of Mathematicians, Stockholm 2004, and at the International Mathematical Congress, Madrid 2006.
Awards:
- 1971: Kató Rényi Prize 2nd class, János Bolyai Mathematical Society.
- 1974: Kató Rényi Prize 1st class, János Bolyai Mathematical Society.
- 1975: G. Grünwald Prize 1st class, János Bolyai Mathematical Society.
- 1977: "Medal for university studies", the Ministry of Education.
- 1979: "Junior Prize" of the Academy of Sciences.
- 1986: Alfréd Rényi Prize, Mathematical Institute of the Academy.
- 1986: Rollo Davidson Prize, University of Cambridge (England) (jointly with G. J. Székely, for the book: "Algebraic Probability Theory").
- 1988: Mathematical Prize (Erdõs Prize), Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- 1995: Academy Prize, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Main subjects of research: connections between number theory and probability, in particular: probabilistic number theory (additive and multiplicative arithmetical functions); probabilistic methods in additive number theory; decomposition of probability measures.
Altogether, about 180 research papers published.