Necibe Tuncer is a Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University. She received a B.S. and MS from Dokuz Eylul University, and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Auburn University in 2007. After that, she served as a lecturer at Georgia State University from 2007 to 2008. She worked as a John Thompson Research Assistant Professor at the University of Florida (2008–2011) and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tulsa (2011–2014). Then, she joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, as Assistant Professor (2014–2018) and became Associate Professor (2018–2023), and now has been Professor since 2023. Her research expertise lies at the exciting intersection of mathematics and biology, with a strong focus on developing novel mathematical methods and techniques, both analytically and computationally, to address complex challenges in the field of biological sciences. Her expertise in mathematical epidemiology lies in developing structural and practical identifiability analyses of multi-scale infectious disease models. Over the years, she has collaborated with many researchers, resulting in numerous published articles and successful NSF grants. She is a member of the editorial board for the Scientific Reports and the editorial
board for the Journal of Biological Systems.
Maia Martcheva is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Biology. She is a mathematical biologist known for her books on population dynamics and epidemiology. She earned a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Sofia in 1988 and completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1998 at Purdue University. After postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, she became an instructor at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1999. After taking several additional visiting faculty positions, she moved to the University of Florida as an assistant professor in 2005 and became Professor in 2012. Her research interests include Avian Influenza Modeling, Mathematical Biology, Population Dynamics, Mathematical
Epidemiology, Mathematical Demography Mathematical Ecology, Nonlinear PDEs, and Numerical Analysis. She is the editor of the Journal of Difference Equations with Application and Journal of Biological Dynamics.
