Natalia Komarova | |
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Born | 1971 (age 52–53) |
Nationality | Russian-American |
Spouse | Dominik Wodarz |
Academic background | |
Education | Moscow State University |
Alma mater | University of Arizona |
Thesis | Essays on Nonlinear Waves: Patterns under Water; Pulse Propagation through Random Media (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Alan C. Newell |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Applied mathematics |
Sub-discipline | Mathematical modeling of complex systems |
Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
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]
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]
Komarova won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2005.[9]
Komarova is married to UC Irvine evolutionary biologist Dominik Wodarz.[3] She has written three books with Wodarz: