Natalia Komarova

This article is about the mathematician. For the Russian politician, see Natalya Komarova.

Natalia Komarova
Born1971 (age 52–53)
NationalityRussian-American
SpouseDominik Wodarz
Academic background
EducationMoscow State University
Alma materUniversity of Arizona
ThesisEssays on Nonlinear Waves: Patterns under Water; Pulse Propagation through Random Media (1998)
Doctoral advisorAlan C. Newell
Academic work
DisciplineApplied mathematics
Sub-disciplineMathematical modeling of complex systems
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego

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]

Education and career

Komarova 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

Komarova won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2005.[8]

Books

Komarova is married to UC Irvine evolutionary biologist Dominik Wodarz.[3] She has written three books with Wodarz:

  • Computational Biology of Cancer: Lecture Notes and Mathematical Modeling (World Scientific, 2005)
  • Dynamics Of Cancer: Mathematical Foundations Of Oncology (World Scientific, 2014)[9]
  • Targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico: Small Molecule Inhibitors and Oncolytic Viruses (Birkhäuser, 2014)[10]

References

  1. ^ Oginni, Paul (8 October 2007), "Closer to a cure: UCI researchers show cancer breakthrough", New University, University of California, Irvine
  2. ^ Atkinson, Nick (20 December 2004), "Darwin meets Chomsky", The Scientist
  3. ^ a b Coker, Matt (31 July 2013), "Dominik Wodarz and Natalia Komarova, UCI math professors, see gun control in numbers", OC Weekly
  4. ^ Kaplan, Karen (16 May 2018), "Computers crack the code of pop-song success: It helps to be 'happy' and 'female'", Los Angeles Times
  5. ^ "The science of songs: What makes good music? Composers and listeners disagree", The Economist, 17 May 2018
  6. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 11 September 2024
  7. ^ Natalia Komarova at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. ^ Past Fellows, Sloan Foundation, retrieved 9 September 2019
  9. ^ Jackson, Trachette L. (January 2015), "Review of Dynamics Of Cancer", Book Reviews, SIAM Review, 57 (1): 161–162, doi:10.1137/15n973824, S2CID 4761031
  10. ^ "Review of Targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico", Anticancer Research, 34 (6): 3237, June 2014