Deryk Osthus

Career

He is known for his research in combinatorics, predominantly in extremal and probabilistic graph theory. Osthus earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1996, followed by the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics (Participant III) from Cambridge in 1997. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in theoretical computer science from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2000.

From 2000 until 2004, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Berlin.

He joined Birmingham University in 2004 as a lecturer. He was appointed Professor in Graph Theory in 2012.

Achievements

• Together with Daniela Kühn and Alain Plagne, he was one of the first winners of the European Prize in Combinatorics in 2003. Together with Kühn, he was a recipient of the 2014 Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society for "their many results in extremal graph theory and related areas. Several of their papers resolve long-standing open problems in the area.".