Todd Kapitula is a Professor of Mathematics at Calvin College. He previously held appointments at the University of New Mexico, Virginia Tech, the University of Utah, and Brown University. He is the co-author of the 2008 Outstanding Paper Prize “Three is a crowd: solitary waves in photorefractive media with three potential wells”, SIAM J. Dyn. Sys. 5(4):598-633 (2006). He is the author or co-author of over 40 research articles, and has been awarded several research grants from the National Science Foundation.