Employment:

Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

• Associate Professor of Mathematics, July 2018-present
• Family Medical Leave, Fall 2015 and Spring 2018
• Assistant Professor of Mathematics, July 2010-June 2018

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Research Scientist, September 2007-June 2010

Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill

Postdoctoral Fellow, June 2006-June 2007

Awards and grants:

Collaborative research: Diffusion of foreign particles in complex fluids

with Scott A. McKinley, (2014-2018), NSF-DMS 14112998

Passive and active suspensions in complex fluids

Collaborative Grants for Mathematicians, Simons Foundation (2014), PI. Award 317887

Department of Mathematics Award

Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2014

Education:

Ph.D in Mathematics (May 2006)

School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Advisor: Peter J. Mucha

Thesis: Small Scale Stochastic Simulations for Particle Image Velocimetry Applications

Minor: Mechanical Engineering

Diploma in Mathematics (B.S and M.Sc) (April 2001)

Department of Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich

Advisor: Marcus Grote

Thesis: Variational Formulation and Energy Estimates for Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions