{"id":25,"date":"2012-09-05T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:16:30","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/maia\/curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<caption>\u00a0<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"CENTER\">Villages at West End<br>\n12757 NW 11th Place<br>\nNewberry, FL 32669<br>\nCell: 917-207-3931<br>\nVoice mail: 201-224-8745<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\" valign=\"CENTER\">Department of\u00a0 Mathematics<br>\n469 Little\u00a0 Hall<br>\nUniversity of Florida<br>\nGainesville, FL\u00a0 32611-8105<br>\nPhone: 352-294-2319<br>\nEmail: maia@ufl.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Position<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor, Department of\u00a0 Mathematics, University of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Affiliated Professor, Department of Biology, University of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Purdue University (1998)\n<ul>\n<li>Advisor: Dr. Fabio Milner<\/li>\n<li>Thesis: An Age-structured Two-Sex Population Model<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>M.S. in Mathematics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria (1988)\n<ul>\n<li>GPA 5.91\/6.00 (graduated third in a class of 154)<\/li>\n<li>Thesis in Numerical Analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Area of Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mathematical Biology<\/li>\n<li>Population Dynamics<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical Epidemiology<\/li>\n<li>Mathemtical Demography<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical Ecology<\/li>\n<li>Nonlinear PDEs<\/li>\n<li>Numerical Analysis<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honors and Grants<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2021-2022 Lord Robert May prize for an article in Journal of Biological Dynamics, Taylor and Francis, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>UF Term Professorship, University of Florida, 2021-2024.<\/li>\n<li>NSF DMS-1951595 &#8220;Collaborative Research: Modeling the opioid and HIV epidemics&#8221; (2020-2024), PI: Maia Martcheva, co-PI: Robert Holt (Biology).<\/li>\n<li>NSF DMS-1917506 &#8220;Fifth Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD5)&#8221; (2019-2020), PI: Maia Martcheva, co-PI: Necibe Tuncer.<\/li>\n<li>UF Term Professorship, University of Florida, 2016-2019.<\/li>\n<li>NSF DMS-1515661 <span class=\"pageheadline\"> &#8220;Collaborative Research: Linking Within-Host and Between-Host Infectious Disease Dynamics&#8221; (2015-2019), PI: Maia Martcheva, Co-PI:\u00a0 Robert D. Holt (Biology).<\/span><\/li>\n<li>NSF DMS-1359889 &#8220;Third University of Florida SIAM Gators Conference&#8221;, PI:\u00a0 W. Hager, Co-PIs: Maia Martcheva, Scott McKinley, Yunmei\u00a0 Chen.<\/li>\n<li>Colonel \u00a0Allen R. and Margaret G. \u00a0Crow Professor, University of Florida, 2013-2014.<\/li>\n<li>NSF DMS-1220342 &#8220;Avian Flu: Modeling, Analysis, and Implications for Control&#8221; (2012-2016), PI: Maia Martcheva, Co-PIs: Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University, Robert D. Holt, Department of Biology, UF.<\/li>\n<li>NSF DGE-0801544 &#8220;IGERT: Spatial Ecology and Evolution: Quantitative Training in Biology, Statistics, and Mathematics&#8221; (2008-2015), PI: Maia Martcheva,\u00a0 Co-PIs: Emilio Bruna,\u00a0 Benjamin Bolker, Craig Osenberg.<\/li>\n<li>NSF DMS-0817789 &#8220;Avian Flu: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations&#8221; (2008-2012), PI: Maia Martcheva, Co-PIs: Robert D. Holt, Manojit Roy, Department of Zoology, UF.<\/li>\n<li>NSF Grant DMS-0408230 &#8220;IGMS: Host immunity and the evolution of infectious diseases&#8221; (2005-2006), PI: Maia Martcheva, Co-PI: Louis Guillette, Department of Zoology, UF.<\/li>\n<li>NSF ADVANCE Fellow,\u00a0 2002-2005.<\/li>\n<li>NSF Grant DMS-0137687\u00a0 &#8220;Effects of host age-structure on the development and evolution of infectious diseases&#8221; (2002-2003). Transfered as DMS-0406119 (2003-2005), PI: Maia Martcheva<\/li>\n<li>Association for Women in Mathematics Workshop Grant (1996, 2000)<\/li>\n<li>CIC\/WISE Travel Grant for women graduate students (1998)<\/li>\n<li>Phi Kappa Phi (member since 1997)<\/li>\n<li>The National Dean&#8217;s List (1995-1996)<\/li>\n<li>Association of Women in Mathematics Grant for participation in Julia Robertson Celebration of Women in Mathematics (1996)<\/li>\n<li>Purdue Research Foundation Grant (Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Summer 1997)<\/li>\n<li>Golden Medal of Department of Education (Bulgaria 1986)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Experience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, August 2012 &#8211; present.<\/li>\n<li>Vice Chair, SIAG Life Sciences, 2012-2014.<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, August 2008-August 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Member, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, June 2009-December 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor, Department of\u00a0 Mathematics, University of Florida, August 2003-August 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of\u00a0 Zoology, University of Florida, 2005-2008.<\/li>\n<li>Affiliated Assistant Professor &#8212; in Residence, Department of Zoology, University of Florida, September 2005 &#8211; July 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University, May-June 2005.<\/li>\n<li>NSF ADVANCE Fellow, DBSCB, Cornell University, 2002-2003.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University, July 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Italy, April-June 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Italy, May-June 2002.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, January-May 2001.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Scientist, Purdue University, January, May, 2000.<\/li>\n<li>Instructor, Polytechnic Institute, NYU, Brooklyn, NY, 1999-2003.<\/li>\n<li>Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, September-December 1998.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Scientist, University of Trento, Italy, May-June 1998.<\/li>\n<li>Teaching Assistant, Purdue University, 1992-1997.<\/li>\n<li>Research Assistant, Purdue University, Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Summer<br>\n1997.<\/li>\n<li>Research Fellow, University of Sofia, 1989-1990, 1992.<\/li>\n<li>Teaching Assistant, University of Sofia, 1989-1990, 1992.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Invited Conference Talks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>9th India Biodiversity Meet 2026, India, 2026 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>Workshop on Differential Equations and Mathematical Biology, Miami, FL, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>The 29th International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications, Paris, France, 2024 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>ICCMM 2024 International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Modeling, Sri Lanka, 2024 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>2023 Summer Institute in Data and Modeling in Biomathematics, China, 2023 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>AMS Southwest Sectional Meering Special Session Talk, Atlanta, GA, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>BEER, Illinois State University, November 2022 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>International Faculty Development Program, Mizoram University, India, August 2022 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>JMM, April 2022 (virtual)<\/li>\n<li>International Symposium on Frontiers Issues of Mathematics Theory, China, December 2021 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>Indo-US Conference II, October 2021 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>SMB Annual Meeting, June 2021 (virtual)<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Development Program, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India, March 2021 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>JMM, January 2021 (virtual)<\/li>\n<li>eSMB Annual Meeting, August 2020 (virtual)<\/li>\n<li>AMS Sectional Meeting, Gainesville FL, November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>39th SEARCDE, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beech FL, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>SMB Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 2019.<\/li>\n<li>CMPD5, Ft. Lauderdale FL, May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>JMM, Baltimore MD, January 2019.<\/li>\n<li>BEER, Arizona State university, Tempe AZ, October 2018.<\/li>\n<li>BIOMATH 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Frontiers in mathematical Biology, UCF, Orlando FL, May 2018.<\/li>\n<li>MBI Workshop, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 2018.<\/li>\n<li>JMM, San Diego CA, January 2018.<\/li>\n<li>ICMA-VI, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, October 2017.<\/li>\n<li>AMS Sectional Meeting, Buffalo NY, September 2017.<\/li>\n<li>SIAM Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh PA, July 2017.<\/li>\n<li>2nd Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section, Little Rock AZ, October 2016.<\/li>\n<li>SMB and ECMTB Annual Meeting, Nottingham, UK, July 2016.<\/li>\n<li>11th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Orlando FL, July 2016.<\/li>\n<li>International Workshop on Current Topics in Epidemic Dynamics, Anyang, China, June 2016.<\/li>\n<li>ICMA-V,\u00a0 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, October 2015<\/li>\n<li>Erice MathCompEpi 2015, Erice, Italy, September 2015<\/li>\n<li>AMS Sectional Meeting, Huntsville, AL, March 2015<\/li>\n<li>SIAM Conference of Life Sciences, Charlotte, NC, August 2014<\/li>\n<li>BIOMATH 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 2014<\/li>\n<li>SIAM SEAS Conference, Melbourne, FL, March 2014<\/li>\n<li>SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2013<\/li>\n<li>SMB Annual Meeting, Tempe, AZ, June 2013<\/li>\n<li>SIAM Conference on Life Sciences, San Diego, CA, August 2012<\/li>\n<li>SMB Annual Meeting, NIMBIOS, Knoxville, TN, July 2012<\/li>\n<li>The 9th AIMS Conference on \u00a0Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Orlando, FL, July 2012<\/li>\n<li>Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, MA, January 2012<\/li>\n<li>Meeting\u00a0 &#8220;Mathematical Innovative Methods and Models of Biosciences&#8221;, Trento, Italy, December 2011<\/li>\n<li>7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vancouver, Canada, July 2011<\/li>\n<li>NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Modeling Johne&#8217;s Diseases, NIMBioS, UTK, July 2011<\/li>\n<li>Third Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of \u00a0Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences, Albena, Bulgaria, June 2011<\/li>\n<li>Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics 3, Bordeaux, France, May 2010<\/li>\n<li>2009 AMS Fall Central Section Meeting, Waco, TX, October 2009<\/li>\n<li>Second International Conference on mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems, UAH, Huntsville, AL, October 2009<\/li>\n<li>Istanbul Conference on Mathematical Methods and Modeling in Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Sile, Turkey, August 2009<\/li>\n<li>Meeting:&#8221;Mitigating the Spread of A\/H1N1: Lessons Learned from Past Outbreaks&#8221;, Tempe, AZ, June 2009<\/li>\n<li>1048th AMS Section Meeting, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, April 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Workshop on Analysis and Numerics of Population Dynamics and Epidemics Models, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, December 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Conference in honour of Horst R. Thieme &#8220;Differential Equations and Applications in Ecology and Epidemiology&#8221;, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, December 2008.<\/li>\n<li>2008 AMS Fall Southeastern Meeting, Huntsville, AL,\u00a0 October 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Conference on\u00a0 Differential Equations and Application to Mathematical Biology, University of Le Havre, Le Havre, France, June 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Fifth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Orlando, FL, June 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Conference in Honor of the 65th Birthday of Jim Cushing, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, October 2007<\/li>\n<li>Workshop on Coevolution, DIMACS, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, October 2006<\/li>\n<li>SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, July 2006<\/li>\n<li>Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, TX, January 2006<\/li>\n<li>Conference on Mathematical Biology and Dynamical Systems,\u00a0 University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX,\u00a0 October 2005<\/li>\n<li>2005 AMS Sectional Meeting, Lubbock, TX, April 2005<\/li>\n<li>Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics\u00a0 2004, joint DESTOBIO 3 &#8211; MPD 7,\u00a0 Trento, Italy, June\u00a0 2004<\/li>\n<li>2004 Spring Southeastern AMS Section Meeting, Tallahassee, FL, March 2004<\/li>\n<li>Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, AZ , January 2004<\/li>\n<li>2003 Joint Central and\u00a0 Western AMS Section Meeting, Boulder , CO,<br>\nOctober 2003<\/li>\n<li>VI Congresso Nazionalle della SIMAI, Grand Hotel Chia Laguna, Domus de Maria, Italy, May 2002<\/li>\n<li>AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2001<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Deterministic and Scholastic Modeling of Biointeraction, DESTOBIO 2000, West Lafayette, IN, August 2000<\/li>\n<li>The Eleventh International Colloquium on Differential Equations, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, August 2000<\/li>\n<li>SIAM Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, July 2000<\/li>\n<li>Workshop &#8220;Emerging and Reemerging Diseases&#8221;, IMA, University of Minnesota, May 1999<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Deterministic and Stochastic Modeling of Biointeraction, Bulgaria, August 1997<\/li>\n<li>National Research Competition for Undergraduate Students, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1988 (second place)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seminar and Colloquia Talks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Georgia State University, November 2023 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical Biology Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University, October 2021 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical Modeling Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Rochester Institute of Technology, September 2021 (virtual).<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, November 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Howard University, September 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Florida Atlantic University, January 2015<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Georgia State University, October 2014<\/li>\n<li>Seminar, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, HSPH, Harvard, Boston, MA, June 2010<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic Institute, NYU, New York, NY, October 2009<\/li>\n<li>Mostly Biomathematics Seminar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York, NY, October 2009<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical Biology Seminar, Department of Mathematics, ASU, Tempe, AZ, September 2009<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, April 2009<\/li>\n<li>MBI Seminar, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, March 2009<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology and Department of Mathematics, University of Miami, April 2008<\/li>\n<li>Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrance Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, March 2006<\/li>\n<li>Departmental Seminar, Department of Zoology, University of Florida,\u00a0 October 2005<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Group T7, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos,\u00a0 NM, July 2004<\/li>\n<li>Trieste-Trento Workshop on Numerical Methods, University of Trento, Italy, June 2003<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, City College of New York, March 2003<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 2003<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Utah State University, March 2003<\/li>\n<li>Biomathematics Seminar, Texas Tech University, March 2003<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Fordham University, February 2003<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Lehigh University, February 2003<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, University of Florida, January 2003<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, University of Louisville, KY, December 2002<\/li>\n<li>Biomathematics Seminar, University of Trento, Italy, June 2002<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Queens College, CUNY, March 2002<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Milwakee, March 2002<\/li>\n<li>Applied Mathematics Seminar, College of Staten Island, CUNY, February 2002<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Montclair State University, February 2002<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, College of William and Mary, February 2002<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical Biology Seminar, Arizona State University, February 2001<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute, Cornell University, July 1998<\/li>\n<li>Colloquium, Texas Tech University, February 1997<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scientific Forums\u00a0 Organized<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Conference: &#8220;Women in Scientific Computing on Complex Physical and Biological Systems&#8221; (with Chunmei Wang and Sara Pollock), Gainesville FL, October 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Conference: CMPD5 (with Necibe Tuncer), Ft. Lauderdale FL, May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;New Developments in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology&#8221;, (with Necibe Tunce, SIAM Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh PA, July 2017.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Advances in Population Dynamics, Epidemiology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases&#8221; (with Necibe Tuncer), SIAM_SEAS Meeting, Tallahassee FL,\u00a0 March 2017.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Advances in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology&#8221;, (with Necibe Tuncer and Hayriye Gulbudak),\u00a0 11th AIMS Conference, Orlando FL, July 2016.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;New Developments in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology&#8221;, (with Necibe Tuncer and Jia Li), AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Huntsville AL, March 2015.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Recent Advances in Mathematical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases&#8221;, (with Necibe Tuncer), SIAM Conference on Life Sciences, Charlotte, NC, August 2014.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Recent Advances in Mathematical Epidemiology, Ecology and Population Dynamics&#8221;, (with Necibe Tuncer), SIAM Annual Meeting, Chicago, July 2014.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Contemporary Approaches in Mathematical Epidemiology,Ecology and Population Dynamics&#8221; (with Necibe Tuncer), SIAM Conference on Life Sciences, San Diego, CA, \u00a0August 2012.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Modern Developments in the Mathematics of Infectious Diseases&#8221; (with Fabio Milner), CMPD3, Bordeaux, France, May 2010.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mathematical Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations&#8221; (with Z. Li and A. S. Ackleh), 2008 AMS Fall Southeastern Meeting, Huntsville, AL, October 2008.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Evolution of Pathogens&#8221; (with Zhilan Feng),\u00a0 CMPD 2004, Trento, Italy, June 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, 2003-2004.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Control Problems in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology&#8221; (with Bedr&#8217;Eddine Ainseba), DESTOBIO 2000, West Lafayette, IN, August 2000.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meeting Attended<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NAKFI Complex Systems, The National Academies Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, CA, November 2008 (poster presentation).<\/li>\n<li>International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology, DIMACS Center &#8211; Rutgers University, June-July 2002 (poster presentation)<\/li>\n<li>Dynamics Days Arizona, Scottsdale, January 1997 (poster presentation)<\/li>\n<li>SIAM Annual Meeting, Kansas City, July 1996 (poster presentation)<\/li>\n<li>Julia Robertson Celebration of Women in Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkely, July 1996 (poster presentation)<\/li>\n<li>Fourth Conference on Differential equations and Applications, Rousse, Bulgaria, August 1989<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Editorial Boards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mathematics in Medical and Life Sciences, October 2024-present.<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Difference Equations with application, July 2021-February 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical Biosciences, publisher: Elsevier, February 2010 &#8211; February 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Biological Dynamics, publisher: Taylor &amp; Francis, Summer 2008 &#8211; present.<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Biological Systems, publisher: World Scientific, Fall 2004 &#8211; December 2015; Managing Editor January 2016 &#8212; December 2018, Editor January 2019-present.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><i>My publications with links are listed in <a title=\"Publications\" href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/maia\/publications\/\">publication list<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>(with X.Z.Li, J.Y.Yang) Age Structured Epidemic Modeling, Springer Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics 52, Springer, New York, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>An Introduction to Mathematical Epidemiology,\u00a0 Springer Texts in Applied Mathematics 61, Springer, New York,\u00a0 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>(with M. Iannelli, F. Milner) &#8220;Gender-Structured Population Modeling: Mathematical Methods, Numerics and Simulations&#8221;, SIAM Frontiers in Applied Mathematics\u00a0 FR31, SIAM, Philadelphia,\u00a0 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching Experience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thirty years experience teaching undergraduate classes\n<ul>\n<li>Taught classes in Precalculus, Calculus, Algebra, Trigonometry, Intermediate Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis, ODEs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Developed an online version of Differential Equations for Physical and Engineering Sciences, Fall 2019.<\/li>\n<li>BioMathematics Seminar I &#8212; a graduate class, Fall 2006.\n<ul>\n<li>Students participated in joint projects with students in the Integrative Principles class (a graduate class in Zoology).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>BioMathematics Seminar II &#8212; a graduate class, Fall 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Modeling in Mathematical Biology &#8212; a graduate\/undergraduate class. Students are mixed from mathematics and biology.<\/li>\n<li>Course coordinator, Precalculus (1999), Algebra (1997),\u00a0 Trigonometry (1995, 1996, 1997)\n<ul>\n<li>Duties include handling section changes and preparing midterm exams (including grading keys) for about 500 students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Curriculum development &#8211; Incorporating Matlab into the Calculus Curriculum\n<ul>\n<li>Developing worksheets for introduction to Matlab<\/li>\n<li>Developing sets of solved problems with and without Matlab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) &#8211; participated in REU Summer program at MTBI (Cornell University, Los Alamos)\n<ul>\n<li>Lectures<\/li>\n<li>Directed student research projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Oluwabukunmi T. Adedeji &#8212; PhD student, August 2024-present (co-advised with Calistus Ngonghala).<\/li>\n<li>Umesha D. Wijerathne &#8212; PhD student, August 2025- present (co-advised with Libin Rong).\n<ul>\n<li>Research interests: HPV and cervical cancer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Parisa Azizi &#8212; M. S.\u00a0 in Mathematics, August 2025.\n<ul>\n<li>Research interests: HIV.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Cristina Korb &#8212;\u00a0 PhD in Mathematics, August 2021 (co-advised with Jed Keesling).\n<ul>\n<li>Research Interests: Zika.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Tharusha Bandara &#8212; PhD in Mathematics, August 2024.\n<ul>\n<li>Research Interests: HIV and nutrition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Churni Gupta &#8212; PhD in Mathematics, August 2021.\n<ul>\n<li>Research Interests: HIV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Julia Frank &#8212; undergraduate student &#8212; March 2019 &#8211; present\n<ul>\n<li>Research Interests: Red blood cells dynamics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Duan Tu &#8212; undergraduate student, March 2019 -May 2020\n<ul>\n<li>Research Interests: neuroscience<\/li>\n<li>Graduate School: University of Illinois at Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Sha-sha Gao &#8212; PhD in Mathematics, December 2022 (co-advised with Libin Rong)\n<ul>\n<li>Research Interests: HPV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Summer Atkins &#8212; PhD in Mathematics, May 2021 (co-advised with William Hager)\n<ul>\n<li>Research interests: optimal control, mathematical biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>J. 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