Career History

Employment History

• 1990-92 Teaching assistant, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.
• 1993-95 Employed as a mathematical writer, the Geometry Forum, an NSF funded Web site.
• 1994-96 Employed for curriculum development and teaching, the Geometry Center, University of Minnesota.
• 1996-98 Postdoctoral fellowship, Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology.
• 1998-2000 Visiting assistant professor, George Mason University.
• 2000-2005 Assistant professor, George Mason University.
• 2005- Member of the Center for Neural Dynamics, Krasnow Institute.
• 2005-2012 Associate professor, George Mason University.
• August 25, 2012 - Professor, George Mason University.
• 2020 - Member of the Mason Institute for Digital Innovation
• August 2023 - Graduate Director, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University.

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

• 1991, 1992, 1994 summer fellowship, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota.
• 1995-96 Louise T. Dosdall Graduate fellowship, University of Minnesota.
• January, 1999 Association for Women in Mathematics travel grant.
• August, 2000 National Science Foundation travel grant.
• Spring, 2002 College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Awards in the Social Sciences and Sciences for “Noninvertibility in Biological Models.”
• Summer, 2002 Summer Research Support for Tenure Track Faculty for “Starchy Gels, Sea Shells, and Animal Coats.”
• January 1, 2004- December 31, 2006 “A dynamical framework for transient neuronal patterns” (Principal Investigator) NIH-NIMH Grant Number R03-MH67659, $140,569.
• September 1, 2006-August 31, 2010 “Mechanisms of wave propagation in neuronal tissue” (co-PI) CRCNS grant, NIH-NIMH Grant Number R01-MH79502, $1,269,896.
• September 1, 2006-August 31, 2013, Undergraduate research in computational mathematics (co-PI), CSUMS, NSF Grant Number DMS-0639300, $1,057,257.
• August 15, 2009 - July 31, 2013 “A Hybrid of Theoretical and Computational Methods for Bifurcation Analysis” (co-PI) NSF Grant Number DMS-0907818, $105,000.
• 2010-11, COS Publication Award.
• September 2012-January 2013 Long Term Visitor, Infinite Dimensional and Stochastic Dynamical Systems and Their Applications, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
• Fall 2014, IBM Visiting Professor, Applied Math, Brown University.
• January 2014 - June 30, 2014, “Calculus-based STEM learning through the arts,” Mason 4-VA Innovation Grant, $20,000.
• July 2014, Travel Grant, Association for Women in Mathematics, $1736.
• July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2019, “EXTREEMS-QED: Undergraduate Research in Computational and Data-Enabled Mathematics” (co-PI), NSF Grant Number DMS-1407087 $599,885.
• Fall 2018, Research Member, Hamiltonian systems, from topology to applications through analysis, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, CA.
• September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2024, Simons Collaboration Grant, “Computation and visualization of dynamical structures” $42,000.