Natalia Komarova

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 Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine.[6]

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

Natalia Komarova
Born1971 (age 49–50)
NationalityRussian-American
Spouse(s)Dominik 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
Institutions University of California, Irvine

Education and career

Komarova studied physics at Moscow State University, earning a master's degree there in 1993.[7] 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.[8]

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.[7]

Recognition

Komarova won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2005.[9]

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)[10]
  • Targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico: Small Molecule Inhibitors and Oncolytic Viruses (Birkhäuser, 2014)[11]

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. 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. Chancellor's Professors, University of California, Irvine Office of Academic Personnel, retrieved 10 September 2019
  7. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 10 September 2019
  8. Natalia Komarova at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  9. Past Fellows, Sloan Foundation, retrieved 9 September 2019
  10. Jackson, Trachette L. (January 2015), "Review of Dynamics Of Cancer", Book Reviews, SIAM Review, 57 (1): 161–162, doi:10.1137/15n973824, S2CID 4761031
  11. "Review of Targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico", Anticancer Research, 34 (6): 3237
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