10 Facts About Grzegorz Rozenberg

Grzegorz Rozenberg is referred to as the guru of natural computing, as he was promoting the vision of natural computing as a coherent scientific discipline already in the 1970s, gave this discipline its current name, and defined its scope.

Grzegorz Rozenberg is a professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science of Leiden University, The Netherlands and adjoint professor at the department of computer science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Grzegorz Rozenberg is the father of well-known Dutch artist Dadara.

Grzegorz Rozenberg received his Master and Engineer degrees in computer science from the Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland.

Grzegorz Rozenberg has authored over 500 papers, 6 books, and edited over 100 books and special issues of scientific journals.

Grzegorz Rozenberg was president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science from 1985 to 1994 and the editor of the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science from 1980 until 2003.

Grzegorz Rozenberg was the president of the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering, the director of European Molecular Computing Consortium, and the chair of European Educational Forum.

Grzegorz Rozenberg is a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, a member of Academia Europaea, and the holder of Honorary Doctorates of the University of Turku, Finland, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany, the University of Bologna, Italy, the Swedish University Abo Akademi in Turku, Finland, and the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.

Grzegorz Rozenberg has received the Distinguished Achievements Award of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science "in recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions to theoretical computer science".

In 2017, Grzegorz Rozenberg has been appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.