PERSONAL INFORMATION
Bio
My name is Justin Webster. I was born in the state of Washington. I grew up in St. Helens, Oregon, about 30 miles northwest of Portland, Oregon. When I was 10 I went to Space Camp in Alabama.
After high school, I attended the University of San Diego in California. At USD, I majored in Mathematics with a minor in Physics. I had the opportunity to do some original research with Dr. Daniel Sheehan on Carbon nanotubes and self-assembling structures. I enjoyed taking a few music courses, and quite a bit of Continental philosophy. In 2007, I was honored with a Goldwater scholarship. In 2008, I gave the graduation speech for the College of Arts and Sciences, speaking about Nietzsche's perspectivism.
After graduating from USD, I entered the mathematics Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia. I worked in partial differential equations with Dr. Irena Lasiecka. In my third year I started working on nonlinear flow-structure interactions, and was even given a graduate research fellowship from NASA for work in this area. I graduated from UVA in August, 2012 and moved to back to Oregon. From 2012 to 2014 I worked with Ralph Showalter and Malgo Peszynska in the Oregon State University mathematics department. This work focused on nonlinear and degenerate evolutions modeling the formation of shallow sediment methane hydrate. I also learned how implicit degenerate equations work. Following OSU, I held a one year postdoctoral appointment at North Carolina State University in the department of mathematics working with Lorena Bociu. We worked on nonlinear poroelasticty models arising in biological models (such as the human eye and biological tissues).
In the summer of 2015, Miss Christel and I became residents of West Ashley in Charleston, SC. My appointment as an Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston began in the Fall of 2015 and concluded at the end of Spring 2017.
In August 2017, I began my appointment at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Go Retrievers! In July 2022, I was promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure at UMBC. Huzzah! More recently, I have been working on coupled hyperbolic-parabolic systems and certain types of instabilities which can arise through coupling (such as resonance). I have also continued my work on biologically-motivated Biot models by working with several types of poroelastic filtration systems.
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