Focus Period lund 2026
Professor
University of Vienna (Austria)
Radu I. Boţ is Professor of Applied Mathematics with Emphasis on Optimization at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna and a founding member of the Research Platform “Data Science@Uni Vienna”. He currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Vienna. He received his Diploma and M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and earned his Ph.D. degree as well as his Habilitation in Mathematics from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
His research interests include continuous-time and discrete-time models for optimization and monotone inclusions, convex analysis, nonsmooth and variational analysis, monotone operator theory, and optimization methods for data science. His research has been funded by the Austrian Science Fund, the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, the German Research Foundation, the Romanian National Research Council, the Australian Research Council, as well as by industrial partners. He is (co-) author of the books Duality in Vector Optimization and Conjugate Duality in Convex Optimization, published by Springer. Radu I. Boţ serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including Mathematical Programming, Computational Optimization and Applications, Applied Mathematics and Optimization, and the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. Since January 2026, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious SIAM Journal on Optimization.