Rebecca Segal
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., North Carolina State University (2001)
rasegal@vcu.edu
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rasegal/

Office room: 4177
Office phone: (804) 828-4756

Research interests:
Mathematical Biology with a focus on numerical solutions to systems of partial and ordinary differential equations. Current application areas include respiratory system dynamics and wound healing dynamics.

Courses currently taught:
Computational Modeling in Mathematical Biology (MATH 582)
Topics: Seminar in Mathematical Biology (MATH 591)
Contemporary College Algebra (MATH 141)

Dr. Rebecca Segal earned her Ph.D. in computational and applied mathematics in 2001 from North Carolina State University, focusing her dissertation work on patterns of airflow and particle deposition in the diseased human lung. She then held a postdoctoral fellowship at a
toxicology company (CIIT Centers for Health Research) where she researched airflow patterns in the human nasal passages with applications in toxicology, pharmaceutics and surgery. Following her postdoc, she worked as a teaching fellow at the University of Bristol,
England. Her current research is in the use of numerical solutions to differential equations derived from applications in medicine and biology, working primarily on applications of nasal airflow patterns to drug delivery and modeling wound healing in patients with additional
injuries or disease states.