Curriculum vitae

Zoran Vondraček
Professor
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

Education

• University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Ph. D. (Math) 1990
  
• University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia M. Sc. (Math) 1986
  
• University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia B. Sc. (Math) 1982
  

Employment

• Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Full Professor 2002-date
  
• Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Associate Professor 1997-2002
  
• Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Assistant Professor 1992-1997
  
• Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Teaching Assistant 1983-1992
  

Visiting Positions

• Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, 1995
  
• University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Visiting Professor 1998/1999
  
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, Visiting Professor, 2006/07
  
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, Visiting Scholar, 2014/16
  
• Seoul National University, Guest Professor, 10/2022-03/2023
  

Shorter Visits

• Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Research in Pairs program, March 17 - 31, 2002.
  
• Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik, ETH Zürich, April 29 - May 12, 2002.
  
• Technische Universität Wien, November 11 - 15, 2002.
  
• Technische Universität Graz, October 6 - 10, 2003.
  
• Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 28 - March 13, 2004, May 25 - 29, 2004, March 10 - 23, 2005, November 2 - 9, 2005, March 26 - April 4, 2006., March 23 - April 6, 2017.
  
• Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Bonn, December 5 -11, 2005.
  
• Department of Actuarial Sciences and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, January 9 -14, 2006.
  
• Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Phillips Universität Marburg, July 2 - 25, 2006.
  
• Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, September 3 -7, 2007.
  
• Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, October 29 - November 10, 2007, October 4-14, 2012., May 22-29, 2013., May 25 - June 7, 2015., September 20-30, 2016.
  
• Peking University, Beijing, China, June 1-7, 2008,
  
• Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Research in Pairs program, March 17 - 31, 2002., August 10 - 23, 2008., July 10 - 23, 2022.
  
• Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, October 11-17, 2008.
  
• Technische Universität Dresden, January 12 - 18, 2009., September 3-10, 2009., July 19 - 31, 2010, April 14-21, 2011, July 19-28, 2012., November 19-25, 2012., August 15-September 30, 2013., March 26-30, 2014.
  
• Wroclaw University of Technology, May 11 - 17, 2009.
  
• Universität Bielefeld, November 8-16, 2010., April 8-14, 2013.
  
• Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, March 19-24, 2012.
  

Grants

• Random processes and applications, MZT grant 037008, 1997-2001
  
• Random processes and applications in financial and actuarial mathematics, Croatian-Slovenian bilateral grant, 2001-2003
  
• Random processes with jumps and applications, MZT grant 0037107, 2002-2006
  
• Financial and actuarial mathematics, Croatian-Austrian bilateral grant, 2002-2003
  
• Potential theory for jump processes, Croatian-US bilateral grant (NSF grant INT 0302167), 2003-2006
  
• Random processes with jumps, MZOS grant 037-0372790-2801, 2007 - 2013
  
• Jump processes and potential theory: Methods from Dirichlet forms and pseudodifferential operators, Croatian-German bilateral grant (MZOŠ-DAAD), 2009 - 2010
  
• Stochastic analysis of jump processes, Croatian-German bilateral grant (MZOŠ-DAAD), 2011 - 2012
  
• Stochastic methods in analytical and applied problems, Croatian Science Foundations, 2014 - 2018
  
• Discontinuous stochastic processes and non-local operators, Croatian Science Foundations, 2018 - 2022
  

Invited Talks

• AMS Meeting, Gainesville, Florida, March 12-13, 1999, Asymptotics of Brownian first-passage time over a stochastic boundary based on the local time
  
• Functional Analysis School VI, Dubrovnik, September 1999, Nonlinear potentials in function spaces (two lectures)
  
• 2nd Croatian Congress of Mathematics, Zagreb, June 15-17, 2000, Nonlinear potentials in function spaces (plenary lecture)
  
• 9th International Conference on Operational Research KOI 2002, Trogir, October 2-4, 2002, Martingales in financial modeling (plenary lecture)
  
• Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics, University of Wales Swansea, January 17, 2005, On potential theory of subordinate Brownian motion
  
• 5th ISAAC Congress, Catania, Italy, July 25-30 2005, On potential theory of subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Conference on Martingales, Stochastic Analysis and Potential Theory, University of Florida, Gainesville, November 10-12, 2005, On potential theory of subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Colloquium in Stochastics, Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, January 13, 2006, On potential theory of subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Workshop on Stochastic and Harmonic Analysis of Processes with Jumps, Angers, May 2-9, 2006, Potential theory for geometrically stable processes (three lectures)
  
• Workshop Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics, Phillips University Marburg, July 14-18, 2006, Parabolic Harnack inequality for the mixture of Brownian motion and stable process
  
• International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, University of Washington, Seattle, August 7-11, 2006, Parabolic Harnack inequality for the mixture of Brownian motion and stable process
  
• 32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 6-10, 2007, Subordinate killed vs. killed subordinate process
  
• 5th International Conference on Levy Processes: Theory and Applications, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 13-17, 2007, On infima of Levy processes and application in risk theory
  
• 2nd International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, May 28-31, 2008, Two results on subordinate Brownian motions
  
• Markov processes and applications, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan, October 17-19, 2008, On potential theory of one-dimensional subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Jumps 2009 - Workshop on Jump Processes, Technische Universität Dresden, January 15 - 17, 2009, On potential theory of one-dimensional subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Workshop ''Schroedinger operators and stochastic processes'', IM PAN, Wroclaw, May 14 - 15, 2009, On potential theory of one-dimensional subordinate Brownian motions with continuous components
  
• 3rd Internatioal Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, July 13-17, 2009, On potential theory of one-dimensional subordinate Brownian motions with continuous components
  
• Nonlocal operators and partial differential equations, Bedlewo, Poland, June 27-July 3, 2010, Nonlocal operators and subordination
  
• 4th International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications, Kansai University, Osaka, August 30 - September 3, 2010, Two-sided Green fnction estimates for killed subordinate Brownian motions
  
• First NIMS Summer School in Probability 2011, Probabilistic Potential theory & related fields, Daejeon, South Korea, August 15-26, 2011. On the role of one-dimensional Levy processes in potential theory (ten lectures)
  
• 5th International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications, Bonn University, September 5-9, 2011, Minimal thinness for subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Foundations of Stochastic Analysis, BIRS, Banff, Canada, September 18-23, 2011, Potential theory of subordinate Brownian motions with Gaussian components
  
• Nonlocal Operators: Analysis, Probability, Geometry and Applications, Bielefeld, Germany, July 19-14, 2012, Potential theory of subordinate Brownian motions with Gaussian components
  
• 6th International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications, Bedlewo, Poland, September 10-14, 2012, On potential theory of subordinate Brownian motion in unbounded sets
  
• 2012 Annual Meeting of the Korean Mathematical Society, Daejeon, Korea, October 5-6, 2012, Potential theory of subordinate Brownian motions with Gaussian components
  
• Joint International Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Romanian Mathematical Society, Alba Iulia, Romania, June 27-30, 2013, Martin boundary for subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Satellite Summer School to the 7th International Conference on Levy Processes, Bedlewo, Poland, July 9 - 13, 2013, Subordinators, one-dimensional Levy processes and potential theory (five lectures)
  
• 7th International Conference on Levy Processes, Wroclaw, July 15 - 19, 2013, Martin boundary for subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Levy processes and self-similarity, Hammamet, Tunisia, November 4 - 9, 2013, Unavoidable collections of balls for jump processes
  
• Non-local operators, PDEs and Levy processes, Toulouse, May 26 - 28, 2014, Scaling conditions in potential theory of Levy processes
  
• 7th International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, Seoul, Korea, August 6 - 11, 2014, Absolute continuity and singularity of probability measures induced by a purely discontinuous Girsanov transform of a stable process
  
• Stable Processes, Casa Matematica Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, November 6 - 11, 2016. Potential theory of subordinate killed Brownian motion
  
• 3rd Workshop on Probability Theory and its Applications, KIAS, Seoul, South Korea. December 13 - 16, 2016. Potential theory of subordinate killed Brownian motion
  
• 5th Bielefeld-Seoul Joint Workshop in Mathematics, February 22-25, 2017. Potential theory of subordinate killed Brownian motion
  
• Probability and Analysis, Bedlewo, Poland, May 15-19, 2017. On potential theory of subordinate killed processes
  
• 13th Workshop on Markov Processes and Related Topics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, July 17-21, 2017. On purely discontinuous additive functionals of subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Workshop on Jump Processes and Stochastic Analysis, Dresden, Germany, September 1-2, 2017. On purely discontinuous additive functionals of subordinate Brownian motion
  
• 5th Najman Conference on Spectral Theory and Differential Equations, Opatija, September 10-15, 2017. Heat kernels on non-symmetric jump processes: beyond the stable case
  
• 14th Workshop on Markov Processes and Related Topics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, July 16-20, 2018. On the potential theory of subordinate killed processes
  
• 9th International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, Bielefeld University, Germany, September 3-7, 2018. Perturbations of non-local operators with critical potentials
  
• 6th Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-local Operators: Applications and Recent Developments, BCAM, Bilbao, Spain, September 26-28, 2018. On the potential theory of subordinate killed processes
  
• Probability and Analysis, Bedlewo, Poland, May 20-24, 2019. On the potential theory of jump processes in open sets
  
• 9th International Conference on Levy Processes, Island of Samos, Greece, July 15-19, 2019. On potential theory of Markov processes with jump kernels decaying at the boundary
  
• 2019 KMS Annual Meeting, Honkig University, Seoul, Korea, October 25-27, 2019. On potential theory of Markov processes with jump kernels decaying at the boundary
  
• Winter Workshop on Elliptic and Parabolic Equations, UAM, Madrid, Spain, December 16-18, 2019. On potential theory of Markov processes with jump kernels decaying at the boundary
  
• Eighth Bielefeld-SNU joint Workshop in Mathematics, February 24-26, 2020. On potential theory of Markov processes with jump kernels decaying at the boundary
  
• 8th European Congress of Mathematics, June 21-25, 2021. On boundary decay of harmonic functions, Green kernels and heat kernels for some non-local operators
  
• Probability and Analysis 2022, Wroclaw, September 19-23, 2022. Potential theory of Dirichlet forms with jump kernels blowing up at the boundary
  
• Probability Workshop in Korea 2022, High1 Resort, December 18-21, 2022. Dirichlet forms with jump kernels degenerate at the boundary
  

Contributed Talks

• Seminar on Stochastic Processes 1991, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, March 23-25, 1991, A characterization of h-Brownian motion by its exit distributions
  
• Ecole d'Ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XXI - 1991, St-Flour, France, August 18 - September 4, 1991, A characterization of h-Brownian motion by its exit distributions
  
• Conference on Fractal Geometry and Stochastics, Finsterbergen, Germany, June 12-18, 1994, A characterization of certain diffusions on the Sierpinski gasket by the exit distribution
  
• International Congress of Mathematicians ICM94, Zürich, Switzerland, August 3-11, 1994, Characterizing diffusions by exit distributions, poster
  
• 1st Croatian Congress of Mathematics Zagreb, July 18-20, 1996, An estimate for the $L^2$-norm of quasi-continuous functions with respect to a smooth measure
  
• Functional Analysis School V, Dubrovnik, September 14-26, 1997, Asymptotics of the first passage time over a one-sided boundary
  
• Bosnian-Croatian Analysis Meeting, Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 10-12, 2001, Potential theoretic properties of some strictly stable processes
  
• 3rd Croatian Congress of Mathematics, Split, June 16-18 ,2004, Ruin probabilities for general perturbed risk processes
  
• Hungarian-Croatian Workshop, Debrecen, Hungary, October 6-8, 2005, On potential theory of subordinate Brownian motion
  
• Workshop on theoretical and applied statistics, Zagreb, November 23, 2005, Ruin probabilities and decompositions for general perturbed risk processes
  

Seminar and Colloquium Talks

• University of Zagreb; University of Osijek; University of Split
  
• University of Ljubljana; TU Wien; TU Graz; Bonn University; Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh; Stockholm School of Economics
  
• University of Florida, Gainesville; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Washington, Seattle; University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Northwestern University, Evanston; Purdue University, West Lafayette, Cornell University, Ithaca; University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  
• Seoul National University, Seoul; Peking University, Beijing
  

Awards

• Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts award for natural sciences and mathematics for 2006.
• National Science Award for 2010.
• Andrija Mohorovičić Award for 2020.