Contact Information

Arizona State University
Regents Professor and Director

Santa Fe Institute
External Faculty

Cornell University
Adjunct Faculty - BSCB

Yachay Tech University
Rector

https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/566521
Tempe AZ 85281

Biography

Carlos Castillo-Chavez is a Regents Professor and a Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology at Arizona State University who has co-authored over 200 publications and a dozen books, textbooks, research monographs and edited volumes. He has mentored 24 postdoctoral students. His 38 PhD students include 18 women, 23 from US underrepresented groups and 6 from Latin America (http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=9934&fChrono=1). He has been a research co-mentor to over 400 undergraduates. Recognitions to his work include: three White House Awards (1992,1997, and 2011), the 12^th American Mathematical Society Distinguished Public Service Award in 2010 and the 2007 AAAS Mentor award. He is a fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), AMS (American Mathematical Society), and ACE (American College of Epidemiology). He has held honorary Professorships at Xi’an Jiatong University in China, the Universidad de Belgrano in Argentina and East Tennessee State University. Past appointments include a Stanislaw M. Ulam Distinguished Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a Cátedra Patrimonial at UNAM in México, and a Martin Luther King Jr. Professorship at MIT. He was a member of the Board of Higher Education at the National Academy of Sciences (2009-2015) and served in President Barack Obama Committee on the National Medal of Science (2010-2015).  His research lives at the interface of disease evolution, behavioral epidemiology, social dynamics, homeland security, epidemiology, addiction and sustainability. He is 17th recipient of the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession (2015) and the inaugural recipient of the inaugural Dr. William Yslas, Outstanding STEM Award, by Victoria Foundation Award and co-sponsored by the Pasqua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona (2015). Castillo-Chavez has been elected as a Member-at-Large of the Section on Mathematics of the AAAS (2-16, 2016 through 2-17 2020.) On February 24, 2016, the University Francisco Gavidia inaugurated the Centro de Modelaje Matemático Carlos Castillo-Chavez, in the City of San Salvador, in the Republic of El Salvador (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UEwgFO9vPM) and (https://mcmsc.asu.edu/CMM-CC). He has been appointed to NSF’s Advisory Committee for Education and Human Resources (2016-2019).

ASU-Web Site: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/566521

Some of his Professional links include:

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/preview?locale=en_US&trk=prof-0-sb-preview-primary-button

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xYcl1kgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao ; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Castillo-Chavez2/

Public URL with full list of publications:

https://math.la.asu.edu/~chavez/

PubMed-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=castillo-chavez