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Bernd Sturmfels received doctoral degrees in 1987 from the University of Washington and the Technical University of Darmstadt, and an honorary doctorate in 2015 from Goethe University Frankfurt. His postdoctoral studies took place in Minneapolis and Linz, and he taught at Cornell University before joining UC Berkeley in 1995 as a Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. Sturmfels was the director of the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig from 2017 and became an Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Leipzig in 2018. He has received numerous awards, including the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, the Clay Senior Scholarship, and the Humboldt Senior Research Prize. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, as well as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Sturmfels has mentored over 50 doctoral students and numerous postdocs, authored ten books and over 250 research articles, and has made significant contributions to the fields of combinatorics, commutative algebra, and algebraic geometry, with applications in statistics, optimization, and computational biology.
UC Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science.
Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences • Leipzig, Germany
Director of the institute.
Technical University of Berlin and University of Leipzig • Berlin and Leipzig, Germany
Honorary Professor at both institutions.
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