email: (n.g.breen@gmail.com)/ (nora.heitzman-breen@colorado.edu)

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. I completed my PhD in Mathematics at Virginia Tech in 2024. As an undergraduate student I studied Biochemistry and Mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

My research focuses on data-driven methods for modeling infection, immune response, and drug therapy responses both at within-host and population scales.  In my work I have developed and analyzed systems of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs), Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) models, and Non-linear mixed effect (NLME) models. My work has additionally addressed challenges in parameter inference and uncertainty quantification in biological modeling.