Guergana Petrova

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Guergana Petrova is an applied mathematician known for her research on numerical methods for solving differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University.

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Education and career

Petrova earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Sofia University. She moved to the US for her doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina.

She joined the University of Michigan mathematics department as a visiting assistant professor and then moved to Texas A&M. At Texas A&M, she is also affiliated with the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science. [1]

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References

  1. "Guergana Petrova", Investigators, Texas A&M Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, retrieved 2018-10-22