Frank den Hollander

Frank den Hollander is a Dutch mathematician.

Education and career

Frank den Hollander studied theoretical physics at Leiden University with undergraduate degree and MSc in 1980 and a PhD in 1985 with thesis advisor Pieter Kasteleyn and thesis Random Walks on Random Lattices. As a postdoc he studied from 1985 to 1989 with Michael Keane at Delft Technical University and from 1989 to 1991 was at TU Delft on a scholarship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Den Hollander was from 1991 to 1994 an associate professor at Utrecht University and from 1994 to 2000 a professor of probability and statistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was from 2000 to 2005 a professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and scientific director of EURANDOM. In 2005 he became a professor at Leiden University.
His research deals with probability theory, statistical physics, ergodic theory, population genetics, and complex networks.
Den Hollander has been a visiting professor at several academic institutions around the world, including a visit from August 1998 to January 1999 at the Fields Institute in Toronto.

2003 — Lévy Lecturer of the Bernoulli Society in Rio de Janeiro
2004 — Invited Speaker at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm
2005 — elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2010 — Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad
2012 — elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2013 — elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2016 — Medallion Lecturer at the World Congress of Probability and Statistics in Toronto
2016 — Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion