Ian Besse

Assistant Professor: 2010-2012 Ph.D. 2010, Applied Mathematics, University of Iowa M.S. 2006, Mathematics, University of Iowa B.A. 2000, Mathematics, Grinnell College

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Dr. Besse has done research in the "Mathematical Modeling of Caveolar-Associated Ionic Currents in Cardiac Action Potential", as well as the "Optimization of Drug Dosages related to a Theoretical Combined Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Therapy." In 2008, at the University of Iowa, he won the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

In 1998, as an undergraduate, Dr. Besse spend a semester abroad in Adelaide, Australia. In the year 2001, he was a volunteer teacher at St. Rodrigue High School in Lesotho, Africa, teaching English and Physics to Basotho youth in a remote, mountainous village. Later, during 2003-2004, he taught Mathematics, Grades 7 and 8, at North View Junior High School among the Osseo Area Schools in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, a culturally diverse, urban school. Dr. Besse was also a long term subsitute teacher in 2003 for PM High School among the Minneapolis Public Schools, an inner-city alternative school. In 2008, he was the coach for a team of undergraduates competing in the COMAP (Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications) Mathematical Contest in Modeling at the University of Iowa.

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