Mathematician Zuzana Patáková receives Bolzano Prize

Zuzana Patáková received the Bolzano Prize for her paper on “Bounding Helly numbers via Betti numbers”. She is a mathematician who did her PhD studies at the Charles University in Prague, worked as a postdoc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , under the supervision of Karim Adiprasito and Gil Kalai for one year, and then joined IST Austria as a postdoc in the Wagner Group. The Bolzano Prize is a prestigious prize of Charles University awarded to their students for exceptionally innovative work reaching across the boundaries of individual disciplines which was done during their studies.