doctoral_advisor birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date article_title name alma_mater
crispin nash-williams koper , slovenia slovene algebraic the action of finite groups on combinatorial objects . graph theory , symmetry of graphs , and university of primorska 01 may 1953 dragan marušič
 dragan marušič university of ljubljana , university of reading
dragan marušič

dragan marušič -lrb- born 1953 , koper , slovenia -rrb- is a slovene mathematician .
marušič obtained his bsc in technical mathematics from the university of ljubljana in 1976 , and his phd from the university of reading in 1981 under the supervision of crispin nash-williams .
marušič has published extensively , and has supervised seven phd students -lrb- as of 2013 -rrb- .
he is the third rector of the university of primorska , a university he lobbied to have established in his home town of koper .
his research focuses on topics in algebraic graph theory , particularly the symmetry of graphs and the action of finite groups on combinatorial objects .
his erdős number is 2 , via torrence parsons .
he is regarded as the founder of the slovenian school of research in algebraic graph theory and permutation groups .
