Wojciech Samotij

Wojciech Samotij (Polish: ; born 1983 in Wrocław ) is a Polish mathematician and a full professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Tel Aviv University. He is known for his work in combinatorics, additive number theory, Ramsey theory and graph theory.

Between 2010 and 2014, he was a fellow of the Trinity College, Cambridge at the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is an associate professor at Tel Aviv University. He published his scientific work in such journals as Random Structures & Algorithms, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, or Israel Journal of Mathematics.

Awards He received the 2013 Kuratowski Prize conferred jointly by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Mathematical Society to young mathematicians under the age of 30. The same year, he won the 2013 European Prize in Combinatorics. Samotij is also the recipient of the 2016 George Pólya Prize and the 2022 Erdős Prize. In 2024 he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research jointly with József Balogh and Robert Morris.

Selected publications with József Balogh, Robert Morris, and Lutz Warnke: with József Balogh and Robert Morris: with Noga Alon, József Balogh, and Robert Morris: with Noga Alon, József Balogh, and Robert Morris: with Ron Peled: with József Balogh: