Mihyun Kang

Mihyun Kang
Kang in Oberwolfach, 2023
NationalitySouth Korea
Alma materKAIST
AwardsFriedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsGraz University of Technology
University of Munich
HU Berlin
Thesis Random Walks on a Union of Finite Groups  (2001)
Doctoral advisorGeon Ho Choe

Mihyun Kang (Korean: 강미현) is a South Korean mathematician specializing in combinatorics, including graph enumeration and the topological properties of random graphs.[1] She is a professor in the Institute of Discrete Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology.[2]

Education and career

Kang completed a PhD at KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in 2001. Her dissertation, Random Walks on a Union of Finite Groups, was supervised by Geon Ho Choe.[3]

She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 2001 to 2008, and completed a habilitation there in 2007. From 2008 to 2011 she was funded by the German Research Foundation as a Heisenberg Fellow. After taking an acting professorship at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2011, she became a full professor at the Graz University of Technology in 2012.[4] At the same time, she became head of the Institute of Discrete Mathematics at Graz.[5]

Recognition

Kang was a 2019 winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis für Prof'in. Dr. Mihyun Kang", Institute for Mathematics (in German), Goethe University Frankfurt, retrieved 2022-07-30
  2. ^ "Personen – Institut für Diskrete Mathematik", TUGRAZ online (in German), Graz University of Technology, retrieved 2022-07-30
  3. ^ Mihyun Kang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), Graz University of Technology, retrieved 2022-07-30
  5. ^ Mehr Frauen-Power für die TU Graz: Entwicklung und Aktivitäten im Überblick (in German), Graz University of Technology, 14 March 2012, retrieved 2022-07-30 – via Informationdienst Wissenschaft