# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mladen-bestvina
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:08:29.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mladen-bestvina"
name: "Mladen Bestvina"
slug: "mladen-bestvina"
description: "Mladen Bestvina 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."
tagline: "Croatian American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mladen_Bestvina.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.473218666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ملادين بيستڤينا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mladen Bestvina"
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    title: "Mladen Bestvina"
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    title: "Mladen Bestvina"
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  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladen_Bestvina"
    title: "Mladen Bestvina"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump