Feichtner-Kozlov obtained his Ph.D. from the
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm in 1996, with thesis
Extremal Combinatorics, Weighting Algorithms, and Topology of Subspaces Arrangements written under the direction of
Anders Björner. In 2004, after longer stays at the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in
Berkeley, California, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the
Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, New Jersey, the
University of Washington in
Seattle, the
University of Bern, and the Royal Institute of Technology, he assumed the position of assistant professor at
ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2007, he works at the
University of Bremen, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Algebra and Geometry, and is the director of the Institute for
Algebra,
Geometry,
Topology and their applications. Feichtner-Kozlov has done research on various topics, such as: topological methods in combinatorics, including applications to
graph colorings; combinatorially defined polyhedral and cell complexes; combinatorial structures in geometry and topology, such as stratifications and compactifications of spaces; combinatorial aspects of chain complexes, such as coboundary expansion. He has also done interdisciplinary work, e.g., developing rigorous mathematical methods in theoretical
distributed computing. Feichtner-Kozlov is the recipient of the following prizes: Wallenberg prize 2003, Goran Gustafsson prize 2004, European Prize in Combinatorics 2005. The book "Distributed Computing through Combinatorial Topology", which he wrote together with computer scientists
Maurice Herlihy and
Sergio Rajsbaum has been selected as a Notable Book on the Best of Computing 2013 list by the
Association for Computing Machinery. He is a managing editor of the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology, published by
Springer-Verlag. ==Personal life==