| Jim Geelen | |
| Field: | Combinatorial optimization |
| Work Institution: | University of Waterloo |
| Alma Mater: | University of Waterloo |
| Doctoral Advisor: | William H. Cunningham |
| Prizes: | Fulkerson Prize |
Jim Geelen is a professor at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization in the faculty of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial optimization.[1] He is known for his work on Matroid theory and the extension of the Graph Minors Project to representable matroids. In 2003, he won the Fulkerson Prize with his co-authors A. M. H. Gerards, and A. Kapoor for their research on Rota's excluded minors conjecture.[2] In 2006, he won the Coxeter–James Prize presented by the Canadian Mathematical Society.[3]
He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1992 from Curtin University in Australia, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of William Cunningham.[4] After brief postdoctoral fellowships in the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan, he returned to the University of Waterloo in 1997.[5]