Bogdan Suceavă (born September 27, 1969) is a Romanian-American mathematician and writer, working since 2002 as professor of mathematics at California State University Fullerton.
Growing up, Suceavă spent his holidays with his maternal grandparents at Nucșoara, a remote community that maintained its traditions, unbroken by the collectivisation elsewhere of Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime.
Suceavă served as editor, together with Alfonso Carriazo, Yun Myung Oh and Joeri Van Der Veken, of the volume Recent Advances in the Geometry of Submanifolds.
On October 20–21, 2018, at the 1143rd Meeting of the American Mathematical Society held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the Special Sessions was dedicated to Bang-Yen Chen's 75th birthday.
[11] The volume is edited by Joeri Van der Veken, Alfonso Carriazo, Ivko Dimitrić, Yun Myung Oh, Bogdan Suceavă, and Luc Vrancken.
In one of the interviews following the official announcements, Suceavă said We aspire to combine the best qualities of teaching and research where actively engaged students, faculty and staff work in close collaboration.
As such, we have directed a significant portion of our efforts to developing a culture of student-faculty research, and accelerating the path toward preparing new scholars to meet the upcoming challenges.
In 1989, Suceavă was a freshman student in Bucharest during the downfall of the Ceaușescu dictatorship; based on his experience he wrote the novel The Night Someone Died for You, in which he reconstructs the tale of a private killed in friendly fire during the Romanian revolution.
His novel The Republic (2016) is about a failed coup d'état attempt from 1870, and it showcases the transformation of the Romanian society into a modern environment where open criticism to the political power is possible.
In Romania, three of Suceavă's novels are in print as mass market paperback in Polirom Press's series Top +10: Coming from an Off-Key Time, Miruna, A Tale, and Avalon.