Fellows
CURRENT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Albane Théry
Simons Postdoctoral Fellow
Albane is interested in building mathematical and numerical models for hydrodynamics problems that arise in experimental soft active matter and biological physics. Her research focuses on the interplay between confinement, properties of complex fluids and the swimming and sensing of microswimmers at the individual and collective scales.
Mari Kawakatsu
JSMF Fellow
Mari uses tools from evolutionary game theory, dynamical systems, and network science to explore collective and emergent behavior in social systems. Her recent projects have explored cooperation and political polarization in multi-dimensional opinion spaces, emergent hierarchies in dynamic networks, and indirect reciprocity in group-structured populations.
Joshua McGinnis
Postdoctoral Fellow in AMCS
Joshua is interested in rigorously connecting underlying discrete models to their continuum approximations. He has studied the approximation of a random Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattice by a Korteweg-De Vries equation and has more recently been studying lattice models for stochastic ion channels. He has also been working on parameter estimation methods in models for population genetics.
Sarah Strikwerda
Hans Rademacher Instructor of Mathematics
Sarah is interested in studying the well-posedness and optimal control of PDE systems describing fluid flow within the human body. She has worked with Biot’s equations to study fluid flowing through deformable porous media and has more recently focused on ways to couple systems together through interface conditions as well as other types of multi-phase models.
PRIOR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Daniel Gomez
University of New Mexico
Daniel is generally interested in using dynamical systems and PDEs to model population dynamics. His current research focuses on models of multilevel selection and evolutionary game theory, as well as understanding collective behavior and pattern formation in ecological and social systems.
Daniel Cooney
University of Illinois
Daniel is generally interested in using dynamical systems and PDEs to model population dynamics. His current research focuses on models of multilevel selection and evolutionary game theory, as well as understanding collective behavior and pattern formation in ecological and social systems.
Hyunjoong Kim
University of Cincinnati
Dr. Kim has broad interests in modeling biological systems for mathematical problems in stochastic processes, partial differential equations, and optimization. He has studied intercellular signaling via cellular protrusions, and mitochondrial dynamics in controlling cell conditions.
Alex McAvoy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alex’s research interests lie primarily in the evolution of prosocial behaviors, asymmetric games, and pathologies in evolutionary game theory. He is also interested in direct reciprocity in repeated and stochastic games, along with applications to problems of multi-agent learning.
Qi Su
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research interests include Game Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory (Evolution of Cooperation), Network Science (Network Resilience, Information Propagation, Epidemiology) and Collective Behavior/Intelligence, Multi-agent Learning.
OPPORTUNITIES
The Center funds three to four Simons Postdoctoral Fellows every year. The Simons Postdoctoral Fellows work in the general area of mathematical biology. Each Fellow is mentored by two advisors, typically one affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and another with the Department of Biology.
