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.Faculty listing, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, retrieved 2015-05-21.

Sandstede earned his Dr. rer. nat. in 1993 from the University of Stuttgart, under the supervision of Bernold Fiedler.

In 2001 he was awarded the J.D. Crawford Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for outstanding research in nonlinear science. 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.Inaugural winner of Elsevier Jack K. Hale Award He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2025 class of fellows.

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