| Patrice Ossona de Mendez | |
| Birth Date: | 13 December 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Field: | Mathematician |
| Alma Mater: | EHESS, Paris |
| Work Institutions: | Centre national de la recherche scientifique |
Patrice Ossona de Mendez is a French mathematician specializing in topological graph theory who works as a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.[1] He is editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Combinatorics, a position he has held since 2009.[1] [2]
Ossona de Mendez was born on 13 December 1966 in Paris.[1] He represented France in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1985, earning a bronze medal there.[3] He studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1986 until 1990, and completed his Ph.D. in 1994 from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.[1] His dissertation, jointly supervised by Rosenstiehl and Hubert de Fraysseix, concerned bipolar orientations of graphs.
He has worked at CNRS since 1995, and earned a habilitation in 2009 from the University of Bordeaux 1.[1]
With Jaroslav Nešetřil, he is the author of the book Sparsity: Graphs, Structures, and Algorithms (Algorithms and Combinatorics 28, Springer, 2012), concerning the properties and applications of different types of sparse graph.[4] [5] This book was included in ACM Computing Reviewslist of Notable Books and Articles of 2012.[6]