Mary Catherine Kropinski completed her PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993, under the supervision of Julian Cole and Don Schwendeman. She then held a postdoctoral appointment at the Courant Institute, New York University, working with Leslie Greengard on integral equation methods for the Stokes and Navier Stokes equations. Awarded an NSERC Women's Faculty Award, Kropinski joined the faculty at Simon Fraser University in 1995 and was promoted to associate professor in 2001. She served on the NSERC Grants Selection Committee for Pure and Applied Mathematics B from 2002 to 2005 and has been an active reviewer for the Journal of Computational Physics and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Her research focuses on computational methods and their application to physical phenomena in low Reynolds number flow, which is significant in various engineering applications.
Simon Fraser University • Burnaby, BC, Canada
Mary Kropinski joined SFU in 1995, progressing from assistant professor to professor and focusing on applied mathematics.