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Associate Director
Stephen Tennenbaum
Email: set1@math.asu.edu
Office: PSA 529
Phone: (480) 965 - 7530
Cell: (602) 350-8602
Webpage: http://math.asu.edu/~set1
Stephen Tennenbaum received his undergraduate degree in General Science from the Rutgers University. He then worked as a lab technician at the Neurology Dept. of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. After a year he entered graduate school at the University of Florida where he obtained his MS in Environmental Engineering Science, and then went on to the University of Maryland where he worked on problems in spatial landscape models and ecological-economics. Soon after, he entered the PhD program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. In 1997 Tennenbaum took a brief hiatus (7 years) to become program manager for the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute SummerProgram, directed by Carlos Castillo-Chavez. In 2004 he returned to graduate school at Cornell University and completed his PhD the next year. After graduating he briefly taught math at ASU and then worked for Innovative Emergency Management Inc. on bioterrorism issues before returning as associate director of MTBI/SUMS. His research deals with a wide variety of topics in mathematical biology, especially population biology, and epidemiological modeling.