CV

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Basics

Name Samuel A. Isaacson
Label Professor of Mathematics
Email isaacsas@bu.edu
Phone (617) 353-2762
Url http://samisaacson.com
Summary My research interests are in the areas of numerical analysis, mathematical biology, and mathematical physics, with an emphasis on the development and the numerical analysis of methods for studying problems in cell biology. Recent research areas have included understanding the rigorous coarse-grained limits of particle stochastic reaction-diffusion models, developing accurate and efficient numerical methods for the simulation of such models within realistic cellular geometries, and the application of particle reactive transport models to the study of cell signaling, T cell signaling, and antibody-antigen interactions.
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Work

  • 2021.03 - Present

    Boston, MA, USA

    Professor of Mathematics
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
    Member, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics (2011–Present); Faculty Affiliate, Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering (2011–Present); Member, Center for Biodynamics (2009–2011).
  • 2016.01 - 2016.06

    Cambridge, UK

    Simons Foundation Fellow
    Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
  • 2015.02 - 2015.03

    Oxford, UK

    Academic Visitor
    Mathematical Institute, Oxford University
  • 2014.09 - 2015.01

    Berkeley, CA, USA

    Visiting Affiliate
    National Center for X-ray Tomography, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • 2014.09 - 2015.01

    San Francisco, CA, USA

    Visiting Associate Professor
    Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco
  • 2014.05 - 2021.02

    Boston, MA, USA

    Associate Professor of Mathematics
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
  • 2008.09 - 2014.05

    Boston, MA, USA

    Assistant Professor of Mathematics
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
  • 2005.09 - 2008.08

    Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Biomathematics Research Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

Education

  • 2000.09 - 2005.09

    New York, NY, USA

    PhD
    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    Mathematics
    • Advisor: Charles S. Peskin
    • Ph.D. Thesis: A Stochastic Reaction–Diffusion Method for Studying the Control of Gene Expression in Eukaryotic Cells
  • 1996.09 - 2000.05

    Providence, RI, USA

    BS
    Brown University
    Applied Mathematics--Computer Science

Awards

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