Researcher in Core 1
Mathematics
Phone:979-845-5298
Email: gpetrova@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~gpetrova/
Guergana Petrova is a researcher in Core 1 at the Institute, and an associate professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M. She came to Texas A&M in 2001 as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Bulgaria’s Sofia University in 1991 and continued her education at the same university, earning a master’s degree in 1993. Her doctorate in mathematics came in 1999 from the University of South Carolina. She was recognized (jointly with Bojan Popov) as the Outstanding Graduate Student in the Department of Mathematics by the University of South Carolina in 1999. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, Petrova served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (from 1999 to 2001). Petrova has acquired strong teaching experience at all levels of higher education, and enjoys serving as a committee member for graduate students. She earned the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Mathematics in 2006, and served as co-organizer of the “Approximation and Learning in High Dimensions” workshop at Texas A&M in 2007. Petrova has participated in numerous international scientific collaborations in a number of nations outside the U.S., including Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, France, Austria, and Brazil. Petrova’s most recent publications include co-authorship of “Anisotropic Smoothness Spaces via Level Sets” (to appear in Comm. Pure Appl. Math.) and “A Second-Order Well-Balanced Positivity Preserving Central-Upwind Scheme for the Saint-Venant System” (with A. Kurganov, Comm Math.Sci. (2007). Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.