Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 from the University of Washington and the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 from the University of Washington and the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
After two postdoctoral years at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation in Linz, Austria, he taught at Cornell University, before joining University of California Berkeley in 1995.
Sturmfels" honors include a National Young Investigator Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship. In 1999 he received a Lester R. Ford Award for his expository article Polynomial equations and convex polytopes. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society.
