Biographical Information
Sharene Bungay (Ph.D. Guelph, 2003) completed
her Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics at Memorial
University of Newfoundland in 1998, where she continued until 2000,
obtaining her Master of Science degree from Memorial's
interdisciplinary Computational Science programme, in the area of
Computational Chemistry. She completed her doctorate in Applied
Mathematics at the University of Guelph in 2003, and conducted
research as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied
Mathematics at the University of Waterloo until 2005. She joined the
Computer Science Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland
as an Assistant Professor in 2005. Her research is in the area of
Computational Modelling of Physiological Systems, with current
interests in modelling thrombin generation in plasma and ovarian
follicular fluid, networks of neurons, and calcium activation in
cardiac cells. Currently, she is a member of the Board of Directors
of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society.