Jessica Loock Matthews

Dr. Matthews was awarded a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC in fall, 2010. Her dissertation research examined water stress conditioning and sensitivity analysis of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance models. As an undergraduate she participated in a cooperative education experience at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, where she supported efforts of the Earth Observing System (EOS) including testing of HDF-EOS data manipulation software, evaluating metadata accuracy, conceptualizing architecture for a data pool realizing real-time user access, and developing wavelet-based data compression algorithms. Following completion of her master's degree, from 2004 through 2010 she worked as a biomathematician for SRA International, Inc. primarily modeling agents under study by the National Toxicology Program. Her research interests focus on modeling of physical and biological phenomenon and the underlying mathematical principles.

Dr. Matthews joined CICS-NC as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in August 2010.