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We are delighted to announce that our member Felix Joos has been awarded one of the two prestigious Eu­ro­pean Prizes in Combinatorics 2023 for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of discrete mathematics. Felix Joos leads the Theo­re­ti­cal Computer Science Group at Institute for Computer Science (IFI), where his re­search focuses on graphs and hypergraphs, addressing algorithmic, extremal and structural questions, along with problems involving probability theory. His exceptional work on asymptotic decomposition theorems related to the Oberwolfach problem and quasirandom hypergraphs received particular recognition by the jury of the prize.

The Eu­ro­pean Prize in Combinatorics is a highly distinguished biennial award that honours researchers under the age of 36, and with a connection to Europe, who have made substantial contributions to the field of combinatorics. Established in 2003, the award has a rich history of acknowledging some of the most influential figures in this field, with the recipients chosen by an expert panel of international mathematicians. This year, the jury included Tomasz Luczak from Adam Mickiewicz Uni­ver­si­ty, Jaroslav Nesetril from Charles Uni­ver­si­ty in Prague, and Emo Welzl from ETH Zurich. The award includes a cash prize of €2,500.

We congratulate Felix Joos on this well-deserved honour and eagerly anticipate his continued excellence in research, which promises to bring further collaborative projects and cooperation.

Further information:

• Website of Felix Joos' re­search group
• Eurocomb23: Eu­ro­pean Prize in Combinatorics