About Bernd Sturmfels...

Bernd Sturmfels has been Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley since 1994, and was recently also appointed Professor of Computer Science. He has held the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, the NSF Young Investigator Award, and a Sloan Fellowship. Professor Sturmfels received dual Ph.D.'s in 1987, one from Darmstadt and one from the University of Washington, then spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the I.M.A. (Minnesota), and a year as an Assistant Professor at Linz before moving to Cornell in 1989 where he was an Associate Professor prior to his move to Berkeley. Bernd Sturmfels is a world-class researcher working at the interface of algebra, combinatorics, and geometry, with a wonderful ability to see connections between these areas and bring techniques from one discipline to bear on problems in another. He has authored five books and over a hundred research papers. A gifted speaker and teacher, he won the 1999 Lester Ford prize for his expository paper (which appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly) on polynomial equations and convex polytopes.