Michael Drmota (born 17 July 1964 in Vienna) is an Austrian mathematician and professor at TU Wien.

He studied Mathematics at TU Wien and finished his PhD in 1986[1] under the supervision of Robert F.

[2] At the same university he acquired habilitation in 1990[3] and is now full professor[3] at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, where he also served as head of institute[3] from 2004 to 2012.

[5] In 1992 he won the Edmund und Rosa Hlawka-Preis of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,[6] and 1996 the Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society.

His research areas are number theory, enumerative combinatorics, analysis of algorithms and stochastic processes on combinatorial structures.