Cecilia Diniz Behn

Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics

welcome

I am a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Colorado School of Mines.

I also hold appointments as an adjoint associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and as an assistant professor adjunct in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

I serve as Vice Chair for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Life Sciences Activity Group.

Education

• AB in Mathematics, Bryn Mawr College
• MS in Mathematics, University of Texas
• PhD in Mathematics, Boston University
• Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School

Research

• Multiscale mathematical modeling of sleep and circadian systems
• Mathematical modeling of metabolism (e.g., glucose-insulin dynamics)
• High-dimensional multiscale systems of differential equations
• Network dynamics
• Biologically-inspired machine learning

funding

My research is currently supported by the following extramural grants:

• National Institutes of Health Grant R01AT013188 (2024–2029)

• National Institutes of Health Grant R61NS130215 (2024–2029)

• National Institutes of Health Grant R01 DK129656  (2022–2026)

Past extramural funding has included the following:

• National Institutes of Health Grant R01 HD087707 (2017–2024)
• National Science Foundation Grant DCCF 1839232 (2018–2023)
• National Science Foundation Grant DMS 1853511 (2019–2023)
• National Science Foundation Grant DMS 1412571 (2014–2018)
• Jazz Pharmaceuticals Investigator-initiated research grant (2017–2019)
• National Science Foundation Grant DMS 1121361 (2011–2014)
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant FA9550-08-1-0111 (2008–2011)