Sarah
D
Olson
Mathematical Sciences
William Steur Professor & Department Head
Affiliated Department or Office
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Biomedical Engineering
Education
BA Providence College 2003
MS University of Rhode Island 2005
PhD North Carolina State University 2008
Expert Bio

Professor Olson explores development of mathematical and computational models to understand emergent phenomenon in biological systems. Applications include tissue engineering, micro-organism motility, muscle contraction, and cell division in cancer cells. She also works on integration of data to inform models with high performance computing.

Research areas/Expertise
computational biology
mechanobiology
regenerative medicine
tissue engineering
algorithms
mathematical modeling
scientific computing
simulation
visualization
biomaterials
applied mathematics
partial differential equations
computational fluid
dynamics
mechanics
Biotechnology
High Performance Computing
Mathematics

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