Nikos Voulgarakis

Nikos Voulgarakis

Professor

Washington State University, Pullman

Biography

I am currently a professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington State University. Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley and the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, where I conducted research on nanoscale fluid dynamics and mechanical properties of DNA. I did my Ph.D. at the University of Crete, Greece, under the suprvision of Prof. George Tsironis.

Interests

  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Fluid Dynamics at small scales
  • Mathematical Biology and Biophysics

Recent Publications

Stochastically drifted Brownian motion for self-propelled particles

Brownian Motion, with some persistence in the direction of motion, typically known as active Brownian Motion, has been observed in many …

Hierarchical Symmetry-Breaking Model for Stem Cell Differentiation

Waddington envisioned stem cell differentiation as a marble rolling down a hill, passing through hierarchically branched valleys …

Multilayered noise model for transport in complex environments

Transport in complex fluidic environments often exhibits transient subdiffusive dynamics accompanied by non-Gaussian probability …

News

Congratulations, Madelynn!

Congratulations to Madelynn McElroy for joining the PhD program in Bioengineering at University of Maryland at College Park!

Congratulations, Kaylie!

Congratulations to Kaylie Green for joining the PhD program in Biomathematics at FSU and for receiving the 2023 Sidney G. Hacker Undergraduate Research Mathematics Scholarship!

Congratulations, Annie!

Congratulations to Annie Lu for joining the PhD program in Mathematics at UCLA!

Annie also won a Fulbright award and all possible outstanding senior awards: Knebelman outstanding senior award from the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics; CAS outstanding senior award in Mathematics; WSU top 10 senior award for academics!

Congratulations to Sharon, Annie, and Chris for receiving summer internship offers!

Sharon Veerayah will work at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as Research Scientist II, Annie Lu will join the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Berlin, and Chris Kang will work with the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Jingyang Wang

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Chris Kang

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Annie Lu

Undergraduate Student

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Kaylie Green

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Madelynn McElroy

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Saranah Selmi

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Kellan Toman

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Kostis Lazaridis

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Brendan Lehman

Master’s Student

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Joe Traverso

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Daniel Herrera

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Logan Wickham

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Grant Hutchings

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Hayden Arcy

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