Zhuolin Qu obtained her Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 2016 from Tulane University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane from 2016 to 2020, and she is currently an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has been working on mathematical biology with particular interests in the mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, computational epidemiology, dynamical systems, and numerical methods for PDEs. She collaborates with researchers in/outside the mathematic community and develops computational tools that advance the fields of both mathematics and biology.