János Körner
János Körner was born in Budapest on November 30, 1946. He got his degree in mathematics from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 1970. He was a member of the Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1970 to 1991. He has been working in Italy from 1992 where he became a professor at Sapienza University of Rome in 1994. His research is concerned with Information Theory and Extremal Combinatorics. He is a Honorary Member of the Rényi Institute of Mathematics. In 2010 he got elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as an External Member. In 2014 he obtained the Claude Shannon Award of the Information Theory Society of the IEEE.
