Biography: Paul Macklin, Ph.D.
Paul Macklin, Ph.D. joined the Cristini research group as an assistant professor in August 2007.
Education
Paul Macklin, born in Nebraska, completed his B.A. in mathematics and German at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in May 1999, with minors in physics and economics. Honors included an honors thesis (finite difference simulations of contaminant transport in groundwater flow), highest distinction (summa cum laude), and a prestigous Barry M. Goldwater scholarship. Macklin was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 1999 and attended graduate school at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), earning an M.S. in (industrial and applied) mathematics in September 2003. Macklin continued his graduate work at the University of California at Irvine, where he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in June 2007. He was highly involved in building graduate student community and co-founded the Mathematics Graduate Student Colloquium; he earned his department's Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award for his cancer modeling work.
Research Interests
Dr. Macklin's primary research interests are in mathematical and computational modeling of cancer, ranging from the molecular scale (protein and gene network modeling) and cell scale (agent-based modeling of cellular motility) to the tissue scale (continuum modeling of cancer with arbitrary geometry in complex, heterogeneous tissue structures). Macklin is also interested in integrating these models at different scales (multiscale modeling) and developing new protocols to calibrate the models with experimental data from various in vitro, in vivo, and clinical sources.
