M. Gregory Forest
is a Grant Dahlstorm Distinguished Professor of
Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He is a Co-Director of the Institute for Advanced Materials,
NanoScience & Technology.
His research brings mathematics, modeling, and computation to bear on complex fluids and soft matter, nano-materials, and transport phenomena in natural and biological systems. He received his Ph. D. in Mathematics at the University of Arizona in 1979, served on the faculty at Ohio State University until 1996, when he moved to UNC to build a program in applied mathematics. His research is supported by research grants from NSF, NIH, NASA, AFOSR, and ARO. He has advised 7 Ph. D students, supervised or co-supervised 13 postdocs.
Professor Forest is Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics and Continuum Mechanics & Thermodynamics. He is a member of the SIAM Committee on Science Policy since 1998, has served on various panels for NSF, and coordinates team-oriented training and research initiatives at UNC. He gives 10-15 invited lectures per year.`
Personal Homepage:
http://www.amath.unc.edu/Faculty/forest/
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