Frank den Hollander

Frank den Hollander (born 1 December 1956) is a Dutch mathematician.

Education and career Frank den Hollander studied theoretical physics at Leiden University with undergraduate degree and MSc in 1980 As a postdoc he studied from 1985 to 1989 with Michael Keane at Delft Technical University (TU Delft) 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 (TU Eindhoven) and scientific director of EURANDOM (TU Eindhoven's center for stochastic sciences). In 2005 he became a professor at Leiden University.

His research deals with probability theory (e.g. theory of large deviations, potential theory methods, and systems of interacting particles), statistical physics (including applications of variational methods to phase transitions), ergodic theory, population genetics, and complex networks. 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

Selected publications with Anton Bovier: