Postdoctoral Fellow Alumni
2004 Departure
Sanjay Danthi (Ph.D. from Department of Pharmacology, The Ohio State University)
Years at MBI: 2002-2004 (co-sponsored by Jack Enyeart, Department of Neuroscience)
Position and Employer: Staff Scientist II at Genzyme Corporation, Waltham, MA
Geraldine Wright (Ph.D. from Department of Zoology, Oxford University)
Years at MBI: 2002-2004 (co-sponsored by Brian Smith, Department of Entomology)
Position and Employer: Lecturer at School of Biology, University of Newcastle
2005 Departure
Alla Borisyuk (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, New York University)
Years at MBI: 2002-2005
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
Gheorghe Craciun (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Years at MBI: 2002-2005
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Biomelecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Daniel Dougherty (Ph.D. from Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University)
Years at MBI: 2002-2005
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Statistics & Lyman Briggs School of Natural Science, Michigan State University
Yixin Guo (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh)
Years at MBI: 2003-2004 (co-sponsored by David Terman and by Department of Mathematics); 2004-2005 (co-sponsored by Mari Jones, Department of Psychology)
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Drexel University
Firas Rassoul-Agha (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, New York University)
Years at MBI: 2004-2005 (sponsored 100% by Pfizer Inc.)
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah
Katarzyna Rejniak (Ph.D. from Department of Applied Mathematics, Tulane University)
Years at MBI: 2002-2005
Position and Employer: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Integrated Mathematical Oncology
Michael Stubna (Ph.D. from Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University)
Years at MBI: 2004-2005 (sponsored 100% by Pfizer Inc.)
Position and Employer: Engineering consulting firm, Princeton, NJ
Martin Wechselberger (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna)
Years at MBI: 2002-2005
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Sydney
2006 Departure
Janet Best (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, Cornell University)
Years at MBI: 2003-2006
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Pranay Goel (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh)
Years at MBI: 2003-2006
Position and Employer: Tenured Faculty at Indian Institute for Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune, India
Sookkyung Lim (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, New York University)
Years at MBI: 2003-2006
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Cincinnati
Diego Pol (Ph.D. from Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University)
Years at MBI: 2004-2006
Position and Employer: Adjunct Researcher (federally funded tenured position) at Museo Paleontologico E. Feruglio
Zailong Wang (Ph.D. from Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis)
Years at MBI: 2004-2006
Position and Employer: Senior Biostatistician at Department of Biostatistics and Statistical Reports, Novartis Inc.
2007 Departure
Jianjun (Paul) Tian (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside)
Years at MBI: 2004-2007
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor in Mathematics, College of William and Mary
Jin Zhou (Ph.D. from Department of Statistics, University of Georgia)
Years at MBI: 2004-2007
Position and Employer: Adjunct Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northern Michigan University
2008 Departure
Marko Djordjevic (Ph.D. from Department of Physics, Columbia University)
Years at MBI: 2005-2008
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Biophysics at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology
German Enciso (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University)
Years at MBI: 2005-2008
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine
Paula Federico (Ph.D. from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee)
Years at MBI: 2008
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Capital University
Paula Grajdeanu (Ph.D. from Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Durham, England)
Years at MBI: 2005-2008
Position and Employer: Shenandoah University
Andrew Nevai (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, University of California, LA)
Years at MBI: 2005-2008
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Richard Schugart (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University)
Years at MBI: 2005-2008
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University
Partha Srinivasan (Ph.D. from Florida State University)
Years at MBI: 2005-2008
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Brandilyn Stigler (Ph.D. from Department of Mathematics, Viginia Tech)
Years at MBI: 2005-2008
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2009 Departure
Edward Green (Ph.D. from Math Medicine, University of Nottingham)
Years at MBI: 2006-2009
Position and Employer: Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, The University of Adelaide
Yangjin Kim (Ph.D. from Mathematics, University of Minnesota)
Years at MBI: 2006-2009
Position and Employer: Mathematics and Statistics, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Andy Oster (Ph.D. from Mathematics, University of Utah)
Years at MBI: 2006-2009
Position and Employer: Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
Michael Rempe (Ph.D. from Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University)
Years at MBI: 2006-2009
Position and Employer: Mathematics, Whitworth University
Shuying Sun (Ph.D. from Statistics, University of Toronto)
Years at MBI: 2006-2009
Position and Employer: Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University
Barbara Szomolay (Ph.D. from Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University)
Years at MBI: 2006-2009
Position and Employer: Applied Math and Mathematical Physics, Imperial College London
2010 Departure
Erik Bloomquist (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles)
Years at MBI: 2009-2010
Position and Employer: Mathematical Statistician, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration
Huseyin Coskun (Ph.D. Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Iowa)
Years at MBI: 2007-2010
Position and Employer: Visiting Asst. Professor at Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
Judy Day (Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh)
Years at MBI: 2007-2010
Position and Employer: Asst. Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Rasmus Hovmoller (Ph.D. Systematic Zoology, Stockholm University, Sweden)
Years at MBI: 2007-2010
Position and Employer: Postdoctoral Researcher at Department of Statistics, Ohio State University
2011 Departure
Julia Chifman (Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Kentucky)
Years at MBI: 2009-2011
Position and Employer: Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer Biology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Richard Gejji (Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Notre Dame)
Years at MBI: 2010-2011
Position and Employer: Department of Defense
Deena Schmidt (Ph.D. Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University)
Years at MBI: 2008-2011
Position and Employer: Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University (Mathematics & Biology)
Dan Siegal-Gaskins (Ph.D. Physics, University of Chicago)
Years at MBI: 2008-2011
Position and Employer: Postdoctoral Researcher at Department of Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
Chuan Xue
Years at MBI: 2008-2011
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Kun Zhao
Years at MBI: 2009-2011
Position and Employer: Mathematics, Tulane University
2012 Departure
Shu Dai (Ph.D. Mathematics, Duke University)
Years at MBI: 2009-2012
Position and Employer: Geophysicist at CGGVeritas Services Singapore Pte Ltd
Marisa Eisenberg (Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, UCLA)
Years at MBI: 2009-2012
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Juan Gutierrez (Ph.D. Mathematics, Florida State University)
Years at MBI: 2010-2012
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of Georgia
Sam Handelman
Years at MBI: 2009-2012
Position and Employer: Post Doctoral Researcher at Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Public Health, The Ohio State University
Harsh Jain (Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, University of Michigan)
Years at MBI: 2009-2012
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University
Suzanne Robertson (Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona)
Years at MBI: 2009-2012
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University
Blerta Shtylla (Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Utah)
Years at MBI: 2011-2012
Position and Employer: Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College
Rebecca Tien (Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University)
Years at MBI: 2009-2012
Position and Employer: Lecturer in EEOB, The Ohio State University
Yunjiao Wang
Years at MBI: 2009-2012
Position and Employer: Mathematics, University of Houston - Clear Lake
