| Prof. Daniel Kráľ |
Address: | Faculty of Informatics |
| Masaryk University |
| Botanická 68A |
| 602 00 Brno |
| Czech Republic |
E-mail: | dkral -at- fi.muni.cz |
WWW: | http://www.ucw.cz/~kral/ |
Academic qualifications, summary of research achievements
- Doctor of Science (DSc) received in October 2012 from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Computer Science received in August 2004 from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Master Degree (Mgr) in Computer Science received in September 2001 from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society 2020
- Philip Leverhulme Prize in Mathematics and Statistics 2014
- European Prize in Combinatorics 2011
- ERC Consolidator grant "LADIST: Large discrete structures" (2015-21)
- ERC Starting grant "CCOSA: Classes of combinatorial objects - from structure to algorithms" (2010-15)
- over 135 journal research papers and over 25 contributions in refereed computer science conferences
journal publications include those in
Advances in Mathematics,
Discrete Analysis,
Canadian Journal of Mathematics,
Combinatorica,
Computational Complexity,
Geometric and Functional Analysis,
Israel Journal of Mathematics,
Journal of the ACM,
Journal of the EMS,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A and B,
Proceedings of the LMS,
SIAM Journal on Computing,
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, and
Transactions of the AMS
conference publication include those at FOCS, ICALP, SODA and STACS
- over 1100 non-self-citations according to WoS, H-index: 19 (WoS), 18 (MathSciNet), 30 (Google Scholar) as of September 2021
Employment history
- October 2018-now, Donald Ervin Knuth Professor, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno
September 2018, professor, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno
- February 2021-now, honorary professor, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick
October 2012-December 2020, professor, Mathematics Institute and Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick (since Sep 2018 part-time)
member of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP)
- July 2010-September 2012, associate professor, Department of Applied Mathematics (2010-11) and Computer Science Institute (2012), Charles University, Prague
February 2011-December 2012, adjunct researcher, Department of Mathematics, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen
- August 2006-June 2010, researcher, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Charles University, Prague
- October 2005-July 2006, visiting assistant professor and Fulbright scholar, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
- August-September 2005, researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics, Charles University, Prague
- October 2004-July 2005, postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Mathematics, Technical University Berlin; the position was funded by the European training network COMBSTRU
- November 2001-September 2004, junior researcher, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Charles University, Prague
September 2001-August 2004, PhD student, Charles University, Prague
Professional service
- Editor-in-Chief: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (since 2017, associate editor 2012-2016)
- Managing editor: Advances in Combinatorics (since 2018)
- Associate editor: Discrete Mathematics (since 2010) and Discrete Optimization (2010-2016)
- Editorial board membership: Journal of Graph Theory (2008-2021), European Journal of Combinatorics (since 2009) and LIPIcs - Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (since 2021)
- member of the steering committee of SODA (2016-22)
- Program committee chair: Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CANADAM) 2019
- Program committee co-chair: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS) 2020, Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG) 2024
- Program committee membership: WG'06, MFCS'10, SODA'12, SOFSEM'12, IPEC'12, ICALP'13, EuroComb'13, SOFSEM'14, WG'14, SODA'15, EuroComb'15, FCT'15, MEMICS'15, CanaDAM'17, STACS'18, DMD'18, EuroComb'19, DMD'20, EuroComb'21, MFCS'21
- Organizing committee membership: SIAM DM'12, BCC'15, SIAM DM'16
- Organization of schools and workshops: CCOSA Fall School 2011, CCOSA Winter School 2013, ICMS workshop on Extremal Combinatorics 2014, LMS-CMI Research school on Regularity and Analytic Methods in Combinatorics 2015, Oberwolfach workshop on Graph Theory 2016, Workshop on Algorithms, Logic and Structure 2016, 10 Year Anniversary DIMAP Workshop 2017, Workshop in Honour of Mike Paterson's 75th Birthday 2017, Workshop on Structural Sparsity, Logic and Algorithms 2018, Oberwolfach workshop on Graph Theory 2019, DIMEA Days 2019, Czech and Slovak Conference Graphs 2020, DIMEA Days 2020
- Mathematics and Computer Science Panel of the Czech Science Foundation (chair, 2021-now)
- Computer Science Panel of the Czech Science Foundation (2011-15, vice-chair 2012, 2019-21)
- Computer Science Board of the Charles University Grant Agency (2010-20)
Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
- Postdocs: Jean-Sébastien Sereni (2006-08), Louis Esperet (2008-09), František Kardoš (2009-10), Demetres Christofides (2010-11), Ján Mazák (2011-12), Andrew Treglown (2011-12), Roman Glebov (2013), Anita Liebenau (2013-15), Ping Hu (2014-17), Tamás Hubai (2015-17), Péter Pál Pach (2017-18), Jonathan Noel (2017-18), Andrzej Grzesik (2017-21), Robert Hancock (2019-20), Adam Kabela (2019-21), Fiona Skerman (2019), Théo Pierron (2019-20), Jan Volec (2019), Samuel Mohr (2020-22), Ander Lamaison (2020-), Frederik Garbe (2021-)
- Former PhD students: Pavel Nejedlý (Charles University, 2008), Jan Hladký (Charles University, 2013), Jan Volec (University of Warwick and Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, 2014, co-advised with Jean-Sébastien Sereni), Lukáš Mach (University of Warwick, 2015), Tereza Klimošová (University of Warwick, 2015), Taísa Lopes Martins (University of Warwick, 2018), Yanitsa Pehova (Warwick, 2020), Timothy F. N. Chan (Monash University and University of Warwick, 2021, co-advised with David Wood)
- Current PhD students: Jacob Cooper, Kristýna Pekárková
Research interests
- Structural and extremal graph theory
- Analytic methods in combinatorics, in particular, combinatorial limits
- Logic methods in graph and matroid theory and their algorithmic applications
Selected papers (the full list is available here)
- V. Cohen-Addad, M. Hebdige, D. Kráľ, Z. Li, E. Salgado: Steinberg's Conjecture is false, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B 122 (2017), 452-456.
- J. W. Cooper, D. Kráľ, T. Martins: Finitely forcible graph limits are universal, Advances in Mathematics 340 (2018), 819-854.
- Z. Dvořák, D. Kráľ, R. Thomas: Testing first-order properties for subclasses of sparse graphs, Journal of ACM 60 (2013), article no. 5:36.
- L. Esperet, F. Kardoš, A. King, D. Kráľ, S. Norine: Exponentially many perfect matchings in cubic graphs, Advances in Mathematics 227 (2011), 1646-1664.
- R. Glebov, D. Kráľ, J. Volec: Compactness and finite forcibility of graphons, Journal of the EMS 21 (2019), 3199-3223.
- A. Grzesik, D. Kráľ, L. M. Lovász: Elusive extremal graphs, Proceedings of the LMS 121 (2020), 1685-1736.
- D. Kráľ, O. Pikhurko: Quasirandom permutations are characterized by 4-point densities, Geometric and Functional Analysis 23 (2013), 570-579.
- D. Kráľ, O. Serra, L. Vena: A Removal Lemma for systems of linear equations over finite fields, Israel Journal of Mathematics 187 (2012), 193-207.