The third interview of the Talking BIG Jobs Interview Series will take place on April 22nd at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, featuring Tondeur Fellow Sarah Minucci as the interviewer and guest Dr. Helen Moore, Director of Applied Mathematics at Applied BioMath, as the interviewee. During the interview, participants will learn how Dr. Moore's background as a mathematician has informed her career and her current work.

Featured Guest

Dr. Helen Moore

Helen Moore is an applied mathematician who works in the biopharma industry. Her original training was in differential geometry, and she worked on this for several years after her Ph.D. A chance encounter at a gathering for postdocs while she was at Stanford University led to collaboration work that soon become her major focus: mathematical modeling of diseases and therapies. Eleven years after her Ph.D., she took the leap to continue this work in the biopharma industry. Dr. Moore has worked at Genentech, Certara, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AstraZeneca. She is currently the Director of Applied Mathematics at a company called Applied BioMath, which provides math modeling support for companies developing therapies for cancer, Alzheimer’s, rheumatoid arthritis, rare diseases, and many other areas of need. Dr. Moore is also a member of the SIAM Council.

Tondeur Fellow

Sarah Minucci

At the 2016 SIAM Annual Meeting in Boston, Sarah Minucci listened to Susan Sohler Everingham talk about her career as a mathematician at RAND, Inc. This experience changed the way Sarah thought about math and the opportunities possible for her. Later she contacted Professor Everingham, who encouraged Sarah to conduct more "informational interviews" whenever she met people whose jobs sounded interesting or heard them talk at conferences. Through broadcasting these interviews, Sarah wants participating students to know that they do not need professional training to seek out their own opportunities to learn about industry, government, and other career paths. Her hope is that these interviews provide exposure to unfamiliar careers, and that she can encourage students to think in new ways and to pursue their passions after graduation.