Munro & Nirody groups
- Email:
- savinov@uchicago.edu
- Website:
- https://nirodylab.uchicago.edu/
- Website:
- https://munrolab.uchicago.edu/
Background
Mariya Savinov joined the JFI in September 2025 as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, jointly as a Chicago Fellow in the groups of Profs. Ed Munro and Jasmine Nirody. They received their PhD in Mathematics from New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Alex Mogilner, where Savinov developed biomechanical models to reveal the role of friction, motor stress, and system size in actomyosin network dynamics. In their postdoc, Savinov seeks to investigate the underlying principles of adaptive collective dynamics of cells across eukaryotic and prokaryotic model systems.