Department of Mathematics
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Short CV
Personal information
- born 1977 in Berlin, Germany
- married, two children
Education
- Habilitation and Venia Legendi for Computer Science, Humboldt University of Berlin, February 2010
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, Emory University, Atlanta, Spring 2004
- M.Sc. in Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Spring 2004
- M.Sc. in Mathematics, Emory University, Atlanta, Fall 2002
- German Vordiplom (B.Sc.) in Business Mathematics, Technical University of Berlin, Summer 1999
Professional experience
- Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Yale University, Fall 2018, 2019, and 2021
- Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, since 2009
- Professor (W3), since 2017
- Associate Professor (W2), 2010-2017
- Visiting Assistant Professor, 2009-2010
- Acting Professor (substituting Prof. H. J. Prömel), Department of Computer Science, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2006-2009
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2004-2006
Awards and scholarships
- Invited Speaker ICM, 2022
- ERC Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council, 2017-2022
- George Pólya Prize in Combinatorics of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2012
- jointly with Vojtěch Rödl for our joint work on generalizing Szemerédi's regularity method to hypergraphs
- Heisenberg Professorship of the German science Foundation (DFG), 2010-2015
- Richard Rado Prize of the Discrete Mathematics section of the German mathematical Society (DMV), 2006
- biennially awarded dissertation prize
Editorial boards
- Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg (editor, 2010-2022)
- Discrete Mathematics (associate editor, 2012-2020)
- SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (associate editor, 2017-2022)
- Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (managing editor, 2018-2021)
- Journal of Graph Theory (since 2018)
Selected publications
- Chr. Reiher, V. Rödl, M. Schacht, On a Turán problem in weakly quasirandom 3-uniform hypergraphs, Journal of the European Mathematical Society 20(5), 2018, 1139-1159
- M. Schacht, Extremal results for random discrete structures, Annals of Mathematics 184(2), 2016, 331-363
- D. Conlon, W. T. Gowers, W. Samotij, M. Schacht, On the KŁR conjecture in random graphs, Israel Journal of Mathematics 203(1), 2014, 535-580
- Y. Kohayakawa, V. Rödl, M. Schacht, E. Szemerédi, Sparse partition universal graphs for graphs of bounded degree, Advances in Mathematics 226(6), 2011, 5041-5065
- J. Böttcher, M. Schacht, A. Taraz, Proof of the bandwidth conjecture of Bollobás and Komlós, Mathematische Annalen 343(1), 2009, 175-205
- B. Nagle, V. Rödl, M. Schacht, The counting lemma for regular k-uniform hypergraphs, Random Structures and Algorithms 28(2), 2006, 113-179