Dr Deryk Osthus promoted to Professor
News item: Dr Deryk Osthus has been promoted to the post of Professor in the University of Birmingham's School of Mathematics.
Dr Deryk Osthus has been promoted to the post of Professor in the School of Mathematics.
After graduating from Cambridge in 1997, Deryk Osthus moved to Berlin where he completed a PhD in Computer Science in 2000. In 2003 he was awarded (jointly with D Kühn) the European Prize in Combinatorics, mainly for their work related to graph minors and Hadwiger’s conjecture. In 2004, he moved to Birmingham and (with D Kühn) established a thriving Combinatorics research group. His research interests include random graphs, randomized algorithms, matching problems, as well as cycles in graphs and digraphs. For example, in 2012 Kühn and Osthus proved a conjecture of Kelly (from 1968) on Hamilton decompositions, which also has applications to the Travelling Salesman Problem.