M. Gregory Forest
Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor of Mathematics & Biomedical Engineering
Co-Director, Institute for Advanced Materials, NanoScience and Technology, UNC-CH
Director, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics
Member, Curriculum in Applied Sciences & Engineering
Office: 316A Phillips Hall
Phone: (919) 962-9606
Administrative Assistant: Jean Foushee-Tyson (919) 962-9343
Email address: forest"at"unc.edu
Educational Background
B.S., Mathematics, Louisiana State University in New Orleans, May, 1972
M.S., Mathematics, Louisiana State University in New Orleans, December, 1973
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Arizona, August, 1979; Advisor: David W. McLaughlin
Previous Positions
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, September, 1979 thru August, 1984
Associate Professor, Ohio State University, September, 1984 thru August, 1989
Professor, Ohio State University, September, 1989 thru July, 1996
Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 1, 1998 thru June 30, 2000
Research Interests
- Flow transport processes in the lung airways (with P. Vasquez, D. Hill, Y. Jin, S. Mitran, G. Herschlag, G. Garcia, J. Cribb, R. Superfine, J. Sheehan, B. Button, R. Tarran, R. Boucher, R. Taylor, R. Camassa, R. McLaughlin, J. Olander, R. Ogrosky, and other collaborators in the Virtual Lung Project at UNC)
- Diffusive transport processes in pulmonary mucus and related soft biological matter (with D. Hill, S. McKinley, J. Mellnik, P. Vasquez, N. Pillai, J. Fricks, G. Didier, C. Hohenneger, T. Elston)
- Antibody-Virus Diffusive Interactions with implications for Viral Infectivity (with S. Lai, A. Chen, S. McKinley, F. Shi, S. Wang, P. Mucha)
- Hydrodynamics and Rheology of Nano-Particle Dispersions & Macromolecular Fluids (with Q. Wang, X. Yang, R. Zhou, W. Mullins, X. Zheng, E. Choate, J. Shen)
- Modeling and Numerical Algorithms for Constitutively Complex Fluids (with S. Mitran, D. Trebotich, G. Miller, P. Vasquez)
- Percolation-induced Property Characterization of Nano-rod and Nano-platelet Composite Materials (with F. Shi, S. Wang, P. Mucha, X. Zheng, R. Zhou, R. Vaia)
- Cell Oscillations (with T. Elston, K. Jacobson, M. Kapustina, Q. Wang, X. Yang, A. Chen)
- Inverse Problems for Material Characterization (with P. Vasquez, D. Hill, K. Xu, J. Wehner, L. Yao, C. Hohenegger, S. McKinley, R. Superfine, S. Mitran, Q. Wang, E. Choate, R. Zhou, X. Zheng, Y. Jin, K. Vuong)
- Modeling of Yeast Cell Dynamics and Microstructure (with K. Bloom, A. Stephens, J. Verdaasdonk, P. Vasquez, P. Short, Y. Zhou, K. Brannigan, C. Hult)
Research Group
Collaborators
Stephen E. Bechtel, Ohio State University
Kerry Bloom, UNC
Brian Button, UNC
Roberto Camassa, UNC
Alex Chen, SAMSI and UNC
Eric Choate, Naval Postgraduate School
Jeremy Cribb, UNC
Bill Davis, UNC
Tim Elston, UNC
Guilherme Garcia, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Medical School
Greg Herschlag, UNC
David Hill, UNC
Ken Jacobson, UNC
Yuan Jin, UNC
Maryna Kapustina, UNC
Sam Lai, UNC
Anita Layton, Duke
Joohee Lee, Ewha Women's University, S. Korea
Brandon Lindley, Naval Research Laboratory, Bethesda, MD
Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
Chun Liu, Pennsylvania State University
Richard McLaughlin, UNC
Scott McKinley, University of Florida
John Mellnik, UNC
Greg Miller, University of California at Davis
Sorin Mitran, UNC
Peter Mucha, UNC
Bill Mullins, UNC & Office of Naval Research
Reed Ogrosky, UNC
Jeff Olander, UNC
Michael Rubinstein,UNC
Yue (Annie) Shan, UNC
Jie Shen, Purdue University
Bill Shi, UNC
Andrew Stephens, UNC
Richard Superfine, UNC
David Trebotich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Richard Vaia, Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB
Paula Vasquez, UNC
Jolien Verdaasdonk, UNC
Hongyun Wang, University of California at Santa Cruz
Qi Wang, University of South Carolina
Simi Wang, UNC
Ke Xu, UNC
Xiaofeng Yang, University of South Carolina
Lingxing Yao, University of Minnesota
Xiaoyu Zheng, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Hong Zhou, Naval Postgraduate School
Ruhai Zhou, Old Dominion University
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