Ryan Evans earned a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Delaware, under the supervision of Professor David A. Edwards. Currently, he is a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Under the direction of Dr. Anthony Kearsley he is pursuing his research interests in modeling transport of chemical reactants in biological system, and protein identification. This involves mathematical modeling, partial differential equations, numerical methods, and data analysis.