Bernd Sturmfels is an internationally recognised expert on nonlinear systems. His findings are not only of great theoretical but also practical importance. The Berkeley professor studies how to improve scientific computer programs. The former vice president of the American Mathematical Society studied mathematics and computer science in Germany and the USA. He is an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin.
My Project
"My research project is concerned with how methods from algebraic geometry and combinatorics can be applied to problems from the fields of optimisation, statistics and biology. Its official launch will be held at our kickoff workshop at the Academy of Sciences and Humanities on 29 and 30 May. My team comprises two postdocs, Laura Escobar (in the summer of '15) and Fatemeh Mohammadi (from October '15), and two PhD students, Kathlen Kohn and Carlos Amendola."