Background
Thomassen, Carsten was born on August 22, 1948 in Grindsted, Denmark. Son of Laust Aage and Tove (Christensen) Thomassen.
Thomassen, Carsten was born on August 22, 1948 in Grindsted, Denmark. Son of Laust Aage and Tove (Christensen) Thomassen.
Candidate scient., Aarhus (Denmark) U., 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1976.
His research concerns discrete mathematics and more specifically graph theory. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Graph Theory and the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, and editor of Combinatorica, the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Ser B, Discrete Mathematics, and the European Journal of Combinatorics. In 1990 he was an invited speaker (Graphs, random walks and electric networks) at the ICM in Kyōto.
He was included on the ISI Web of Knowledge list of the 250 most cited mathematicians.
He has been a Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Denmark since 1981, and since 1990 a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Married Lis Kristensen, June 17, 1972. Children: Chris, Mark.