Natalia L. Komarova (born 1971) is a Russian-American applied mathematician whose research concerns the mathematical modeling of cancer,[1] the evolution of language,[2] gun control,[3] pop music,[4][5] and other complex systems.
She is a Professor of Mathematics and Dean's Scholar at the University of California, San Diego.
[6] Komarova studied physics at Moscow State University, earning a master's degree there in 1993.
Her dissertation, Essays on Nonlinear Waves: Patterns under Water; Pulse Propagation through Random Media, was supervised by Alan C.
[8] Komarova is married to UC Irvine evolutionary biologist Dominik Wodarz.