The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Math in Biology (NITMB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Joseph Hibdon as the inaugural Rotating Associate Director for Convening Programs.

Meet Andreas Buttenschoen, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst!

We're excited to welcome the second cohort of NITMB Fellows starting Summer 2025

Meet Alexandra Volkening, assistant professor of mathematics and (by courtesy) biomedical engineering at Purdue University!

Join us for the NSF-Simons NITMB's first public lecture with New York Times bestselling author, Steven Strogatz!

Meet Jeremy Gunawardena, associate professor in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School

Research from NITMB member explores how differences between forest and desert flies could help explain how climate change impacts insects

Hear how attending the Biological Systems that Learn workshop is impacting workshop participants

Meet Krešimir Josić, John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston

NITMB members Niall Mangan and Jeremy Hoskins have been awarded prestigious 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships

NITMB is proud to announce the Institute has awarded funding to support ten new internal research projects.

Meet Andrea Liu, Hepburn Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania

Meet Orlando Arguello-Miranda, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University!

Meet NITMB Member Oni Basu, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago

Meet Xaq Pitkow, associate professor of computational neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University

Explore the NITMB's upcoming workshop, Biological Systems that Learn

Meet Sarah Cobey, NITMB Member and Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago

Mathematicians and biologists from around the world recently convened for the Random Dynamical Systems, with Applications in Biology

Meet Ben Kuznets-Speck, postdoctoral research fellow at Northwestern University

Meet Sonja Petrović, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology