First name

Carlos

Last name

Castillo-Chavez

Academic unit

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Status

Retired

Type of professor

Regents Professor

Year

2004

Bio summary

Castillo-Chavez used mathematical biology – representing, treating and modeling biological processes with math – to study how diseases evolve. He was the founding director of the Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center and the graduate field in applied mathematics in the life and social sciences.