I am a National Research Council postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, and am a mathematical biologist focusing on cryobiology, the study of life at low temperatures.  Cryobiology presents a natural setting for mathematical problems involving heat and mass transfer in biological systems, often coupled to external environments. My contributions involve parameter identification, model formulation, and optimization of these models.

My current research is on the analytic and numeric optimal control of the heat and mass transfer problems intrinsic to cryobiology.