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Björn Sandstede

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Björn Sandstede
Born
NationalityGerman
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater
AwardsJ.D. Crawford Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
ThesisVerzweigungstheorie homokliner Verdopplungen (1993)
Doctoral advisorBernold Fiedler

Björn Sandstede is a German applied mathematician. He is currently the Alumni-Alumnae University Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, where he serves as chair of the department.[1]

Sandstede earned his Dr. rer. nat. in 1993 from the University of Stuttgart, under the supervision of Bernold Fiedler.[2]

In 2001 he was awarded the J.D. Crawford Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for outstanding research in nonlinear science.[3] In 2014 Sandstede was awarded the Jack K. Hale Award for his contributions to partial differential equations and the study of spiral waves in reaction diffusion systems.[4] He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Faculty listing, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, retrieved 2015-05-21.
  2. ^ Björn Sandstede at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "J.D. Crawford Prize". SIAM. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  4. ^ Inaugural winner of Elsevier Jack K. Hale Award
  5. ^ "2025 Class of Fellows of the AMS". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
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