Information

Membership Number: FCA1158

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Mathematics and Information Sciences & Natural Sciences

Corresponding Email: gutman@kg.ac.rs

Homepage(s): https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Gutman_Ivan

Present and Previous Positions

1970–1971 Assistant  at the Faculty of Science, Belgrade 

1971–1977 Assistant in the Theoretical Chemistry Group of the “Rud-er Boˇskovi´c”   Institute, Zagreb 

1975– member of the Mathematical Institute, Belgrade 

1977–2012 Chair of Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac   (Full Professor since 1984) 

2012– Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac 

2023– retreats to Sombor 

Doctor Honoris Causa

2017    Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary

Fellowships, professorships:

1977      A. v. Humboldt fellow (Institute for Quantum Chemistry, Free University, Berlin, Germany)

1980      A. v. Humboldt fellow (Max–Planck–Institute for Radiation

Chemistry, Mu¨lheim/Ruhr, Germany)

1982      visiting professor (Technical High School, Ilmenau, Germany)

1983      visiting professor (University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA)

1985      A. v. Humboldt fellow (Max–Planck–Institute for Radiation

Chemistry, Mu¨lheim/Ruhr, Germany

1988      fellow of the Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial

Research (University of Trondheim, Norway)

1989      Fulbright fellow (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA)

1989      fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan)

1990      Fulbright fellow (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA)

1992/3      visiting professor (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)

1994–6     visiting professor (Attila Jo´zsef University, Szeged, Hungary)

1995      Lady Davis fellow (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

1996      fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies (Hebrew

University, Jerusalem, Israel)

1996      DAAD fellow (Technical University, Ilmenau, Germany)

1997      Third World Academy of Science award (University Central de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba)

1998      visiting professor (GERAD, University of Montreal, Canada)

1999      visiting professor (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria)

2000      visiting professor (Universidad de Los Andes, M´erida, Venezuela)

2000      A. v. Humboldt fellow (University Freiburg & University

Bayreuth, Germany)

2001      DAAD fellow (Technical University, Ilmenau, Germany)

2001      visiting professor (University Bielefeld, Germany)

2002      visiting professor (University Bielefeld, Germany)

2003      A. v. Humboldt fellow (Computer–Chemistry–Center, University Erlangen, Germany)

2004      visiting professor (University of Malta, Msida, Malta)

2005      visiting professor (Nankai University, Tianjin, China)

2006      visiting professor (Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de M´exico,

Mexico City, Mexico)

2007      visiting professor (Nankai University, Tianjin, China)

2009   visiting professor (Catholic University of North, Antofagasta, Chile)

2012/3    distinguished adjunct professor (King Abdulaziz University,

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

2014–6    visiting professor (State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia)

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Ph.D. degree in chemistry, University of Zagreb (1973, Ph.D. thesis “Investigation of topological properties of conjugated hydrocarbons”)

Ph.D. degree in mathematics, University of Belgrade (1981, Ph.D. thesis “Contribution to the spectral theory of trees”)

Theoretical Organic Chemistry, Geometry and Topology, Number Theory, Algebra, Physical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Graph Theory, and Discrete Mathematics

Prof. Gutman is known for his work in chemical graph theory and topological descriptors. In mathematics, he introduced the notion of graph energy, a concept originating from theoretical chemistry. With Chris Godsil he worked on the theory of the matching polynomial.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Full member of the Serbian Academy of Science

Member of Academia Europaea (London) 

member of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry

member of the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences (Moscow)

Selected Publications

books: 24, edited books: 21, scientific papers: > 1500

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan-Gutman

Other Information

https://www.iccbikg2023.com/ivan-gutman 

https://www.pmf.kg.ac.rs/gutman/