Mladen Bestvina

Mladen Bestvina
Bestvina in 1985
Born1959 (age 66–67)
Alma materUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville
AwardsSimons Fellow (2025)
AMS Fellow (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Utah
University of California at Los Angeles
Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis Characterizing K-Dimensional Universal Menger Compacta  (1984)
Doctoral advisorJohn Joseph Walsh

Mladen Bestvina (born 1959) is a Croatian-American mathematician working in the area of geometric group theory. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah.