Shuwen Xue

Assistant Professor

Education

Ph.D., Auburn University — Partial Differential Equations

Research

Xue’s research addresses how populations and diseases spread in spatially heterogeneous and temporally shifting environments. A central focus is chemotaxis — the directed movement of organisms in response to chemical gradients — where she has developed results on Keller-Segel models, including spreading speeds, forced waves and long-term dynamics under climate-driven environmental shifts. She also works on nonlocal moving boundary problems, cross-diffusive epidemic models and multi-patch epidemic systems. She has published in the Journal of Differential Equations, the Journal of Mathematical Biology and Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, has been an invited speaker at the Banff International Research Station and serves as guest editor for Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.

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School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
DeKalb, IL 60115
Andrew Ledoan, Director
aledoan@niu.edu
815-753-0566

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Anders Linner
Associate Director, Enrollment Management
alinner@niu.edu
815-753-6722

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