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Nina Fefferman

Nina H. Fefferman (born December 20, 1978) is an American mathematical modeler and theoretical biologist. Her research uses mathematical modeling to explore the behavior, evolution, and control of complex systems with application in areas from basic science ([https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-005-0833-x evolutionary sociobiology]  and [https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.76.031919 epidemiology]) to direct real-world applications ([https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436517301317 bio-security], [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7497768?casa_token=Iv4U74yka3oAAAAA:dGWlwv190mdRbDiTgCfJXFWSIRMSPk4Gj-X-WQMgNf-LN7c-s19NA6oRSVZ6REHg_zLKMgJMsA cyber-security], [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378437124006423 bio-inspired design], and [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S000632070900278X wildlife conservation]). She studies how individual behaviors can affect an entire population, frequently focusing on a [https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1900219116 networks approach]. She has written over [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=su7CB3AAAAAJ&hl=en 150]  peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and been [https://feffermanlab.org/funding.html funded by a diversity]  of US governmental agencies and private foundations throughout her career.

Fefferman is the founding director and PI of the US NSF Center for Analysis and Prediction of Pandemic Expansion ([https://appex.org/ APPEX]) and also serves as the director of the National Institute for Modeling Biological Systems ([https://www.nimbios.org/ NIMBioS]) (previously the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis). Both of these organizations are based at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where Fefferman is also a professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Mathematics. Provided by Wikipedia