External Collaborators

Juddy Heliana Arias Castro 

Professor
Department of Mathematics
Universidad del Valle (Colombia)

Optimal control for ODE systems; numerical methods and optimal control; population and epidemiological modeling; applications of optimization techniques in biology, and ecology; mathematical methods and complex networks 

Jordy Cevallos Chavez 

PhD Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences
Arizona State University

Mathematical modeling; data analysis methods; biological, epidemiological, and ecological systems modeling; mathematical biology education

Jim Cushing 

Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied Mathematics
University of Arizona

Population, ecological, epidemic, disease and evolutionary dynamics; difference equations; ordinary & partial differential equations; integral & integro-differential equations; population biology; ecology and evolutionary dynamics;  model evaluation; connection of models to data; experimental documentation of model predictions

Paula Gonzalez Parra

Professor
Department of Mathematics
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente Cali (Colombia)

Computational science; adaptive human behavior in epidemiological models

Joceline Lega

Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona

Applied mathematics; nonlinear dynamics

Roxana Lopez-Cruz

Professor
Department of Mathematics
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Biomathematics; functional analysis and differential equations with delay; mathematical models in epidemiology and ecology

Shwetal Mehta

Associate Professor
Department of Translational Neuroscience

Deputy Director
Ivy Brain Tumor Center

Brain tumor research; early-phase pharmacodynamic- and pharmacokinetic-driven studies for patients with malignant brain tumors

Joanna Monti-Masel

Professor
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Arizona

Evolvability; mutations and function

John Nagy

Professor of Biology
Scottsdale Community College

Evolutionary dynamics of disease; population dynamics; mathematical and computational evolutionary medicine; life history evolution; evolutionary biology; biology education

Claudia Pio Ferreira

Full Professor 
Unesp, Botucatu, S˜ao Paulo, Brazil

Mathematical models in ecology and epidemiology

Lilian Sepulveda Salcedo

Full Professor of Mathematics & Co-director of PhD program in Bioengineering
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente

Biological control of insect vectors and insect pests