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Daniel E. Bentil is an Associate Professor
of Applied Mathematics, and Molecular Physiology and
Biophysics at the University of Vermont. He received his
doctoral degree in Applied Mathematics and Mathematical
Biology from the University of Oxford, England, in 1991, and
two-year NSF Postdoctoral training at the University of
Washington in Seattle, WA. Dr. Bentil was a 1987
Commonwealth Scholar and the recipient of a 1995 NSF CAREER
award.
His research interest is at the interface
of applied mathematics and the biomedical sciences,
including designing appropriate mathematics courses for life
science majors. He has a well-funded and active research
group focusing on broad issues and linkages between
quantitative principles of muscle, vocal fold, and lung
physiology. His work relates to systems-based approach to
the study of physiological structures and processes from
microscopic to macroscopic levels. Some of the underlying
pathophysiological processes are intrinsically stochastic,
and utilize paradigms from statistical mechanics, condensed
matter physics, biophysics, molecular biology, nonlinear
systems, signal processing, and applied mathematics. He
finds complexity, multiple factors and systems-based
approach to modeling biomedical phenomena stimulating,
because modeling such systems successfully requires a wide
variety of techniques.
Dr. Bentil serves on the Editorial Board
of the Journal of Science and Technology and Special Issue
of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He
is currently a member of the National Institutes of Health’s
Biomedical Research and Training Program Review Group. His
avid passion is to expose as many people (US and non-US
citizens) as possible to the cultural, educational and
historical legacies of Ghana. (see:
http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~dben/UVM_In_Ghana_2008.htm)
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