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.