Stanislav (Standa) Živný is Professor of Computer Science at the University of
Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor at Merton College. He received his doctorate
(DPhil) from Oxford in 2009, after studying at Charles University in the Czech
Republic, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and the University of
Turku in Finland.

His research is in algorithms, computational complexity, and discrete
optimisation, with a particular focus on applying mathematics to the design and
analysis of algorithms. His work has advanced the mathematical foundations of
algorithms and computational complexity for broad classes of optimisation and
constraint satisfaction problems.

His research has been supported by a Royal Society University Research
Fellowship, an ERC Starting Grant, and an ERC Consolidator Grant. From 2022 to
2026, he served as Editor-in-Chief of SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.
Within Oxford’s Department of Computer Science, he served as Director of
Teaching for three years before serving as Deputy Head of Department for
Teaching for two years.