Natalia Komarova
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Natalia Komarova | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 (age 54–55) |
| 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, San Diego |
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 Professor of Mathematics and Dean's Scholar at the University of California, San Diego.[6]
Komarova studied physics at Moscow State University, earning a master's degree there in 1993.[6] 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.[7]
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.[6] In 2024 she moved to University of California, San Diego.
Recognition
Komarova won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2005.[8] In 2023, Komarova was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9]
