Laura A. Miller is an American mathematical biologist, known for her research in
biomechanical applications of
fluid dynamics
In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in motion ...
including insect flight, jellyfish propulsion, and blood flow in embryonic hearts. She works at the
University of Arizona
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as a professor of mathematics.
Education and career
Miller majored in the biological sciences at the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...
, where she graduated with honors in 1995. After a master's degree in
zoology
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at
Duke University
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in 1999, she earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2004 at the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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of
New York University
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. Her dissertation, ''A Computational Study of Flight in the Smallest Insects'', was supervised by
Charles S. Peskin.
After postdoctoral research at the
University of Utah
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General A ...
, she joined the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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in 2007, as an assistant professor of mathematics and adjunct assistant professor of biology. She became a full professor in 2018, before moving to the University of Arizona.
References
External links
Home page*
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women biologists
21st-century American mathematicians
American theoretical biologists
American fluid dynamicists
University of Chicago alumni
Duke University alumni
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
21st-century American women mathematicians