Prof. RNDr. Roman Kotecký, DrSc.

Roman Kotecký was born in 1949 in Ostrava. He graduated from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. His main research interests in mathematics and mathematical physics concern theory of phase transitions of classical and quantum systems.

Apart from UTIA he is presently employed at the CTS. Previously he worked in the department of theoretical physics at Charles University, in the theory group of Microsoft Research in Redmond, and for more than 15 years occupied a position of Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Warwick.

He has been a Panel Member of ERC Starting Grants Evaluation Panels (2007-2015) and was (or is) a member of editorial boards of the journals: Journal of Statistical Physics, Mathematical Physics Electronic Journal, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare D: Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions, and Vesmír. Among his notable awards is A. von Humboldt Research Award and the Silver Medal (1st degree) of the Czech Union of Mathematicians and Physicists. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic.

His research interests are mathematical statistical physics and probabilistic studies of phase transitions. In particular, different aspects of the theory of phase transitions - especially in its finite volume manifestations; Pirogov-Sinai theory and cluster expansions, finite-size effects, zeros of partition functions, equilibrium crystal shapes and the formation of droplets, statistical physics and nonlinear elasticity, models of interfaces and wetting, quantum lattice models, models on the continuum, metastability theory, methods of statistical physics in discrete mathematics.