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Professor Hesthaven recieved an M.Sc. in computational physics from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in August 1991 and a Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis from the Institute of Mathematical Modelling (DTU). Following graduation in August 1995, he was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Advanced Scientific Computing and was approinted Visiting Assistant Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. In December of 1996, he was appointed consultant to the Institute of Computer Applications in Science and Engineering(ICASE) at NASA Langley Research Center (NASA LaRC). As of July 1999, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, in January 2003, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics with tenure and as of July 2005, he was promoted to full Professor. From July 2006 he serves as the associate chair of the Division of Applied Mathematics and as of October 2006 he was appointed Director of the Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV).

In September 2000 he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, in July 2001 he was awarded a Manning Assistant Professorship, and in March 2002, he was awarded an NSF Career Award. In recognition of his teaching he was, in May 2004, awarded the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Sciences (the highest award given for teaching excellence in all sciences at Brown University).

Professor Hesthaven is on the editorial board of Journal of Scientific Computing (2003-) and the SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing (2005-). He is a permanent member of the scientific committee of several international conferences and serves as a reviewer for numerous journals and for both national and international funding agencies.

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