Janka Chlebíková is a Slovak computer scientist specializing in graph algorithms, combinatorial optimization, and hardness of approximation. She is a senior lecturer and associate head for partnerships in the school of computing at the University of Portsmouth in England. [1]
Chlebíková earned a diploma (master's degree) in mathematics from Charles University in 1988, a doctorate in mathematics from Charles University, and a second doctorate in computer science from Comenius University in 2000. [2]
After working as a software developer, she became a lecturer at Comenius University in 1995. She became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kiel from 2001 to 2004, [2] and then returned to Comenius University as an associate professor from 2004 to 2008 before moving to the University of Portsmouth in 2009. [1]
Chlebíková is married to Miroslav Chlebík, a mathematician at the University of Sussex. Their daughter Andrea, a quadrilingual child prodigy in mathematics, [3] studies atmospheric science at the University of Cambridge. [4]