Curriculum Vitae
| Personal data | |
| Name: | Radu Ioan Boţ |
| Date of birth: | 10.01.1976 |
| Place of birth: | Satu Mare, Romania |
| Family status: | married, 2 children |
Education | |
| 10.11.2009 | Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics Decision of the Professorial Council on granting of the academic title Privatdozent (PD) |
| 18.12.2008 | Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics Decision of the Professorial Council on granting of the academic degree Dr. rer. nat. habil. Habilitation thesis: Conjugate duality in convex optimization |
| 10/1999-06/2003 | Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics Ph. D. student in the International Master and PhD Program Thesis defended on June 25th, 2003 Grade: Summa cum laude Ph. D. thesis: Duality and optimality in multiobjective optimization (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. G. Wanka) |
| 10/1998-06/1999 | Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Faculty of Mathematics and Computing Science, Department of Mathematics Master course on “Convex Analysis and Theory of Approximation” Degree: M. Sc. in Mathematics Grade: 10 (best) Master thesis: The Fenchel duality in set-valued optimization |
| 10/1994-06/1998 | Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania Faculty of Mathematics and Computing Science, Department of Mathematics Degree: Diploma in Mathematics Grade: 10 (best) Diploma thesis: Duality for convex optimization problems |
| 09/1990-06/1994 | Mihai Eminescu National College, Satu Mare, Romania Final school exam grade: 9,75 |
| 09/1982-06/1990 | School Nr. 2, Satu Mare, Romania German Language Section |
Employment history | |
| since 10/2020 | Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Head of the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Vienna |
| since 03/2020 | Speaker of the FWF DK "Vienna Graduate School on Computational Optimization" |
| since 05/2018 | Founding Member of the Research Platform "Data Science@Uni Vienna" |
| 11/2016-06/2020 | Speaker of the Vienna Doctoral School "Mathematics" and of the "Vienna School of Mathematics" |
| 10/2016-09/2020 | Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Mathematics and Deputy Head of the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Vienna |
| since 10/2016 | Invited Associate Professor of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca |
| since 07/2013 | University of Vienna, Faculty of Mathematics |
| 04/2011-06/2013 | Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics |
| 10/2010-03/2011 | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Mathematical Institute, Temporary position of professor of applied mathematics |
| 08/2003-09/2010 | Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics |
| 12/2000-05/2001 | IPCentury AG, Merseburg, Department of Research and Development |
Research fellowships and awards | |
| 2003 | awarded with the University Prize of Chemnitz University of Technology |
| 09/1999-05/2002 | granted with a Ph. D. fellowship from “Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung” |
| 10/1998-01/1999 | granted with a SMWK-fellowship from the land Saxony for a research stay at Chemnitz University of Technology |
| 1998 | awarded for graduating Faculty of Mathematics and Computing Science of the Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca with the best grade possible |
Member of Editorial Boards | |
| August 2024 - present | Mathematical Programming |
| January 2023 - present | Journal of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory |
| July 2020 - present | Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization |
| April 2020 - present | Fixed Point Theory and Algorithms for Sciences and Engineering |
| July 2019 - present | Computational Optimization and Applications |
| February 2019 - present | Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization |
| September 2018 - present | Optimization Methods and Software |
| February 2018 - present | Control and Cybernetics |
| July 2017 - present | Applied Mathematics and Optimization |
| June 2016 - present | De Gruyter Book Series on Optimization |
| April 2014 - present | Minimax Theory and its Applications |
| March 2014 - February 2017 | Applied Mathematics and Computation |
| January 2014 - present | SIAM Journal on Optimization |
| January 2013 - present | Optimization Letters |
| July 2012 - December 2020 | Journal of Mathematics |
| March 2012 - present | Communications in Optimization Theory |
| November 2011 - present | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications |