Natalia L. Komarova (born 1971) is a Russian-American applied mathematician whose research concerns the mathematical modeling of cancer,[1] the evolution of language,[2] gun control,[3] pop music,[4][5] and other complex systems. She is a Professor of Mathematics and Dean's Scholar at the University of California, San Diego.[6]
Natalia Komarova | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 (age 52–53) |
| Nationality | Russian-American |
| Spouse | Dominik Wodarz |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Moscow State University |
| Alma mater | University of Arizona |
| Thesis | Essays on Nonlinear Waves: Patterns under Water; Pulse Propagation through Random Media (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan C. Newell |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Applied mathematics |
| Sub-discipline | Mathematical modeling of complex systems |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
Education and career
editKomarova studied physics at Moscow State University, earning a master's degree there in 1993.[6] She completed her Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation, Essays on Nonlinear Waves: Patterns under Water; Pulse Propagation through Random Media, was supervised by Alan C. Newell.[7]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Warwick, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Chicago, Komarova became a lecturer at the University of Leeds in 2000. She moved to Rutgers University in 2003 and to the University of California, Irvine in 2004. At UC Irvine, she was named a Chancellor's Professor in 2017.[6] In 2024 she moved to University of California, San Diego.
Recognition
editKomarova won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2005.[8]
Books
editKomarova is married to UC Irvine evolutionary biologist Dominik Wodarz.[3] She has written three books with Wodarz:
References
edit- ^ Oginni, Paul (8 October 2007), "Closer to a cure: UCI researchers show cancer breakthrough", New University, University of California, Irvine
- ^ Atkinson, Nick (20 December 2004), "Darwin meets Chomsky", The Scientist
- ^ a b Coker, Matt (31 July 2013), "Dominik Wodarz and Natalia Komarova, UCI math professors, see gun control in numbers", OC Weekly
- ^ Kaplan, Karen (16 May 2018), "Computers crack the code of pop-song success: It helps to be 'happy' and 'female'", Los Angeles Times
- ^ "The science of songs: What makes good music? Composers and listeners disagree", The Economist, 17 May 2018
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 11 September 2024
- ^ Natalia Komarova at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Past Fellows, Sloan Foundation, retrieved 9 September 2019
- ^ Jackson, Trachette L. (January 2015), "Review of Dynamics Of Cancer", Book Reviews, SIAM Review, 57 (1): 161–162, doi:10.1137/15n973824, S2CID 4761031
- ^ "Review of _targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico", Anticancer Research, 34 (6): 3237, June 2014
External links
edit- Home page
- Natalia Komarova publications indexed by Google Scholar