About the Author
Lisa J. Fauci

Lisa J. Fauci

Lisa J. Fauci is the Pendergraft Nola Lee Haynes Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University. Her research focuses on biological fluid dynamics, with an emphasis on modeling and simulation to study the basic biophysics of organismal locomotion and reproductive mechanics. Fauci served as president of SIAM from 2019 to 2020 and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2023.