Johann (János) A. Makowsky (born March 12, 1948) is a Hungarian-born naturalised Swiss mathematician who works in mathematical logic and the logical foundations of computer science and combinatorics.

in 1974), of Beno Eckmann (Topology and Geometry) and Volker Strassen (Algorithmics), and in Warsaw of Andrzej Mostowski and Witek Marek, where he spent 1972 as an exchange student.

[3] During his presidency he established the EACSL Ackermann Award for outstanding PhD theses in computer science logic.

In 2008, an event dedicated to Makowsky on his 60th birthday was co-located with the annual meeting of the EACSL.

[4] Since 2016, he is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion, and continues his research and teaching and supervising graduate students