Reinhard Diestel

Reinhard Diestel
Diestel in 2007
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
Thesis Simplicial Decompositions and Universal Graphs  (1986)
Doctoral advisorBéla Bollobás
Doctoral students
Websitewww.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/diestel/

Reinhard Diestel (born 1959) is a German mathematician specializing in graph theory, including the interplay among graph minors, matroid theory, tree decomposition, and infinite graphs. He holds the chair of discrete mathematics at the University of Hamburg.