Björn Sandstede

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]

Björn Sandstede
Born	Hannover
Nationality	German
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	Heidelberg University University of Stuttgart
Awards	J.D. Crawford Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Thesis	Verzweigungstheorie homokliner Verdopplungen (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Bernold Fiedler

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]