Let’s welcome some new folks to the section!
Danielle (Nellie) Jensen is an Assistant Professor at Gonzaga University. She received her Ph.D. from Montana State University in 2019 with the dissertation “A mathematical model of a biphasic DNA amplification reaction.”
Adriana Ortiz Aquino joined the Mathematics Department at Whitman College in the Fall of 2024. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico where she also did her undergraduste degree in Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Ortiz Aquino received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Kansas State University. Her doctoral research was in graph theory and optimization, but she is also interested in machine learning, deep learning, and data science. She also is passionate about promoting diversity, equity and inclusion both in and out of the classroom.
Kostas Kydoniatis joined the faculty at the University of Wyoming in 2025 as an Assistant Professional Lecturer. His work focuses on the Hardy-Littlewood circle method and the Davenport-Heilbronn method. Kydoniatis received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 2025. His hobbies include hiking, painting, and tabletop role-playing games.
Blake Allan grew up in many Midwestern cities, but spent most of his young adulthood in Waco, Texas. As an undergraduate at Baylor’s Honors College, he studied mathematics and physics, focusing on conceptual frameworks for quantum mechanics. His graduate work focused on spectral theory and mathematical physics, which facilitated independent research in the history and philosophy of mathematics. Allan joined the George Fox faculty in the fall of 2026, and enjoys reading aloud with his wife and two cats.
