Natalia Komarova facts for kids

Natalia L. Komarova was born in 1971. She is a Russian-American mathematician. She uses math to understand many different things. This includes how cancer grows and how language changes over time. She also studies topics like gun control and even pop music!

Natalia Komarova is a Professor of Mathematics. She works at the University of California, San Diego.

Natalia Komarova's Education and Career

Natalia Komarova studied physics at Moscow State University. She earned her master's degree there in 1993. Later, she got her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Arizona. Her Ph.D. work was about waves.

After finishing her studies, Komarova did more research at several universities. These included the University of Warwick and the University of Chicago. In 2000, she became a lecturer at the University of Leeds.

She then moved to Rutgers University in 2003. In 2004, she joined the University of California, Irvine. She became a Chancellor's Professor there in 2017. In 2024, she moved to the University of California, San Diego.

Awards and Recognition

Natalia Komarova has received important awards for her work. In 2005, she won a Sloan Research Fellowship. This fellowship helps support promising young scientists.

In 2023, Komarova was chosen as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is a big honor for scientists.

Books by Natalia Komarova

Natalia Komarova is married to Dominik Wodarz. He is an evolutionary biologist at UC Irvine. They have written three books together. These books use math to understand biology and health.

• Computational Biology of Cancer: Lecture Notes and Mathematical Modeling (2005)
• Dynamics Of Cancer: Mathematical Foundations Of Oncology (2014)
• Targeted Cancer Treatment in Silico: Small Molecule Inhibitors and Oncolytic Viruses (2014)