Torbjörn Sjöstrand
Torbjörn Sjöstrand | |
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| Born | 13 November 1954 |
| Education | Lund University |
| Known for | PYTHIA |
| Awards | Sakurai Prize (2012) High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle physics Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Lund University |
| Thesis | Phenomenological Studies On Jet Fragmentation (1982) |
| Website | http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/ |
Torbjörn Sjöstrand (born 13 November 1954) is a Swedish theoretical physicist and a professor at Lund University in Sweden, where he also got his PhD in 1982. He is one of the main authors of PYTHIA, a program for generation of high-energy physics events.
In his early career, Sjöstrand spent shorter postdoc periods at DESY (Germany) and Fermilab (USA). From 1989 to 1995 he was staff member in the CERN Theory division.