Natasha Flyer (born 1969)[1] is an American earth scientist and applied mathematician known for her expertise on radial basis functions.
[3] Flyer majored in geological sciences at Northwestern University, graduating with a bachelor's degree there in 1993.
She went to the University of Michigan for graduate study in atmospheric and space science, and completed her Ph.D. in 1999.
In 2003, she returned to the National Center for Atmospheric Research with a permanent appointment as a scientist.
[4] With Bengt Fornberg [fr], her husband,[5] Flyer is the author of a book on radial basis functions, A Primer on Radial Basis Functions with Applications to the Geosciences (CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics 87, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2015).