Frank Charles Hoppensteadt (born 29 April 1938)[1] is an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical biology and dynamical systems.
Frank Hoppensteadt studied physics and mathematics at Butler University with bachelor's degree in 1960.
At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he received in 1962 his master's degree and in 1965 his PhD with thesis Singular perturbations on the infinite interval under the supervision of Fred Guenther Brauer and Wolfgang Wasow.
From 1986 he was Dean of Natural Science at Michigan State University and then, from 1995, at Arizona State University, Professor of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering Research.
In 1998 he was, with Eugene Izhikevich, an invited speaker with talk Canonical models in mathematical neuroscience at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.