Paula Budu Grajdeanu


	Paula Budu-Grajdeanu
	Oakton, 22124 VA Phone: (703) 539 8107 E-mail: paulabudu (at) gmail (dot) com

Previous Appointment: Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), at The Ohio State University (Mentor: Prof. Avner Friedman)
Previous Appointment: Research Associate, Mathematics Department/MathBio, at Duke University (Mentors: Prof. Harold Layton and Prof. Michael Reed)

(Ph.D, Applied Mathematics, Durham University)

curriculum vitae (pdf.file) (AMS standard cover letter.pdf)

statement of research interests (pdf.file) (publication list.pdf)

statement of teaching interests (pdf.file)

Nonlinear ODEs/PDEs and their applications in medicine and biology (hemodialysis vascular access dysfunction, lupus nephritis)
Cell Metabolism (mathematical models for folate and methionine cycle, dopamine metabolism)
Renal Physiology (nephron modeling)
Fluid dynamics (nonlinear stability for Non-Newtonian fluids)

Publications

Paula Budu-Grajdeanu, Han Han, James Sharpnack and David Tello, ``Mathematical modeling of cellular mechanisms in L-Dopa treated Parkinson's patients'', in preparation (2008)

Paula Budu-Grajdeanu, Leon C. Moore and Harold E. Layton, ``Effect of spatial inhomogeneities on the tubuloglomerular feedback system'', in preparation (2008)

Paula Budu-Grajdeanu, Richard C. Schugart, Avner Friedman, Daniel J. Birmingham and Brad H. Rovin, ``Quantifying the advantages of early intervention on SLE nephritis flares'', submitted to Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Paula Budu-Grajdeanu, Richard C. Schugart, Avner Friedman, Christopher Valentine, Anil K. Agarwal and Brad H. Rovin, ``A mathematical model of venous neointimal hyperplasia formation'', Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 5(2) (2008)

Xiaoping Liu, Partha Srinivasan, Eric Collard, Paula Grajdeanu, Jay L. Zweier and Avner Friedman``Nitric oxide diffusion rate is reduced in the aortic wall'', Biophysical Journal, 94(5), 1880-1889 (2008)

Paula Budu-Grajdeanu, Leon C. Moore and Harold E. Layton, ``Effect of tubular inhomogeneities on filter properties of thick ascending limb of loop of Henle'', Mathematical Biosciences, 209 (2), 564-592 (2007)

Frederik H. Nijhout, Michael C. Reed, Paula Budu and Cornelia M. Ulrich, ``A mathematical model of the folate cycle - new insights into folate homeostasis", Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279 (53), 55008-55016 (2004)

Paula Budu, ``Unconditional nonlinear stability for a fluid of third grade'', Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 27 (4), 457-475, (2004)

Paula Budu, ``Stability results for convection in thawing subsea permafrost'', Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 13 (4), 269-285 (2001)

Paula Budu, ``Conditional and unconditional nonlinear stability in fluid dynamics'', Ph.D. Dissertation for University of Durham, England (March 2002)

Paula Budu, ``Controllability of infinite dimensional differential systems'', M.Sc. Dissertation for University of Iasi, Romania (June 1997)

Paula Budu, ``Subdifferentiability of convex functions with values in ordered spaces'', B.Sc. Dissertation for University of Iasi, Romania (June 1996)

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