Laura Miller (mathematical biologist) facts for kids

Laura A. Miller is an American scientist who uses mathematics to study living things. She is known for her research on how living things move through liquids or air. This includes studying how insects fly, how jellyfish swim, and how blood moves in tiny baby hearts. She works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona.

Her Journey in Science

Laura Miller studied biology at the University of Chicago and finished her studies with great results in 1995. She then earned a master's degree in zoology (the study of animals) from Duke University in 1999.

Later, she earned her Ph.D. (a very advanced university degree) in mathematics in 2004 from New York University. For her Ph.D., she studied how the smallest insects fly. Her teacher for this project was Charles S. Peskin.

After finishing her studies, she did more research at the University of Utah. In 2007, she joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a math professor. She became a full professor there in 2018 before moving to the University of Arizona.