Nicholas G. Cogan is Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University. He began studying mathematical biology in undergraduate school and received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah under James P. Keener. He routinely works with microbiologists, environmental engineers, clinicians, and other scientists outside of mathematics. He has taught for twenty years at the undergraduate level and his research focuses on mathematical modeling in the life sciences. He is the author of over fifty articles using mathematics with biology.