Nikolay Strigul
CURRICULUM VITAE
October, 2010


Principal Research Interests

Theoretical and experimental ecology, complex adaptive systems, mathematical biology, biostatistics, scaling methods, application of mathematical modeling to ecological problems.

Education

2007 Ph.D., Mathematics
Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Hoboken, NJ, USA
Dissertation: A new method of scaling of vegetation dynamics from individual level to forest ecosystem based on crown plasticity.
Advisors: Stephen Pacala and Charles Suffel

2002 M.Sc., Applied Mathematics
Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Hoboken, NJ, USA

2000 Ph.D., Biology
ARRIAM, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dissertation: Mathematical modeling of the population dynamics of microorganisms in plant rhizospheres.
Advisor: Lev Kravchenko

1999 M.Sc., Mathematics (The specialist degree)
Department of Statistical Modeling, Faculty of Mathematics & Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Thesis: Investigation of the Monod Non-linear Regression Model with Application in Biology.
Advisor: Viatcheslav Melas

1996 M.Sc., Biology (The specialist degree)
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology & Soil Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Thesis: Biology of the Common Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris, L.) in the North-West Region of Russia.
Advisors: Vladimir Zimin and Sergei Rezvy


Professional Experience

Since Sep. 2006 Research Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken,NJ).
Research in theoretical biology and environmental toxicology. Teaching.
Courses in theoretical biology and modeling: EN250 Introductory Quantitative Biology , EN345 Modeling and Simulations of Environmental Systems , MA463 Introduction to Mathematical Biology , MA800 Mathematical Biology , MA801 Mathematical Management of Renewable Resources and Infectious Diseases
Courses in probability and statistics: MA118 Probability for Business and Liberal Arts , MA222 Probability and Statistics , MA540 Introduction to Probability Theory , CE679 Regression and Stochastic Methods , MA725 Advanced Numerical Analysis
Courses in applied mathematics: MA188 Seminar in Applied Mathematics, MA530 Advanced Engineering Mathematics II , MA361 Partial Differential Equations , MA615 Numerical Analysis I .
Courses in pure mathematics: MA116 Calculus II, MA227 Multivariable Calculus, MA232 Linear Algebra , MA234 Complex Variables with Applications , MA410 Differential Geometry , MA442 Real Variables , MA552 Axiomatic Linear Algebra , MA681 Functions of a Complex Variable , MA651 Topology .

Jan. 2004 - Sep. 2006 Research Staff Member
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ).
Research in mathematical biology. Forest ecology and modeling. Scaling methods. Social norm modeling.
Postdoctoral advisors: Stephen Pacala and Simon Levin

Sep. 2005 - Sep. 2006 Adjunct Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken,NJ).
Teaching. Fall 2005 - MA530 Advanced Engineering Mathematics II ; Spring 2006, Summer 2006 - MA651 Topology .

Oct. 2001 - Dec. 2003 Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Environmental Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ).
Environmental research. Study of ecological effects of heavy metals and explosives; phytoremediation, environmental modeling. Evaluation of tungsten impact on soil community and plants and study of toxicity and biodegradation of a new explosive material CL-20. Postdoctoral advisor: Christos Christodoulatos

Nov. 2000 - Oct. 2001 Junior Scientific Researcher
Laboratory of Rhizosphere Ecology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Mathematical modeling of plant-microbial interactions and population dynamics of rhizosphere microorganisms. Inverse problems for microbiological models, optimal design of experiments.

Oct. 1996 - Oct. 2001 Aquatic Biologist
Aquaculture company “Elephant +” Inc. (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Design of fresh water and marine aquatic systems, long-term control of the biological equilibrium and succession. Aquarium fish breeding and aquatic plant cultivation. Testing and complex diagnosis of aquaculture systems, community structure and water quality.

1990 - 1995 Seasonal field research assistant.
Ornithological Field Station “Majchino”, Biological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodsk, Russia) Field research in population ecology of passerine birds. Breeding ecology and seasonal migrations. Study of ecology of the Common Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris L.).


Publications

Research papers

  1. N.S. Strigul, I. Florescu, A.R. Welden, F. Michalczewski. Hierarchical scaling of forest dynamics to the landscape level: modeling of forest stand dynamics. Theoretical Ecology, submitted

  2. D. Vaccari, N.S. Strigul Modeling of potential phosphorus limitation. Chemosphere, submitted

  3. N.S. Strigul 2010. Does speciation matter for tungsten ecotoxicology? Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 73(6): 1099-1113. DOI link

  4. N.S. Strigul, A. Koutsospyros, and C. Christodoulatos. 2010. Tungsten speciation and toxicity: acute toxicity of mono- and poly- tungstates to fish. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 73(2): 164-171. DOI link

  5. N.S. Strigul. 2009. Can Imitation Explain Dialect Origins? Ecological Modelling, 220(20): 2624-2639. DOI link

  6. N.S. Strigul, H. Dette, and V.B. Melas. 2009. A Practical Guide for Optimal Designs of Experiments in the Monod Model. Environmental Modeling and Software, 24(9): 1019-1026. DOI link

  7. N.S. Strigul, C. Galdun, L. Vaccari, T.Ryan, W.J. Braida, and C. Christodoulatos. 2009. Influence of Speciation on Tungsten Toxicity. Desalination, 248 (1-3): 869-879. DOI link

  8. N.S. Strigul, A. Koutsospyros, and C. Christodoulatos. 2009. Tungsten in the Former Soviet Union: Review of Environmental Regulations and Related Research. Land Contamination and Reclamation, 17(1): 189-216 DOI link

  9. N.S. Strigul, L. Vaccari, C. Galdun, M. Wazne, F. Xi, C. Christodoulatos, and K. Jasinkiewicz. 2009 Acute Toxicity of Boron, Titanium Oxide, and Aluminum Nanoparticles to Daphnia magna and Vibrio fishery. Desalination, 248 (1-3): 771-782. DOI link

  10. A. Koutsospyros, N.S. Strigul, W.J. Braida, and C. Christodoulatos. 2009. Tungsten: Environmental Pollution and Health Effects. Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (invited book chapter, in press). ISBN: 9780444522733 publisher link

  11. N.S. Strigul, D. Pristinski, D.Purves, J. Dushoff, and S.W. Pacala. 2008 Scaling from Trees to Forests: Tractable Macroscopic Equations for Forest Dynamics. Ecological Monographs, 78 (4): 523-545 DOI link

  12. D. Purves, J. Lichstein, N.S. Strigul, and S.W. Pacala. 2008. Predicting and Understanding Forest Dynamics Using a Simple Tractable Model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (44): 17018-17022 DOI link

  13. N.S. Strigul and L.V. Kravchenko. 2006. Mathematical Modeling of the PGPR Strains Inoculation in Rhizosphere. Environmental Modeling and Software. 21(8): 1158-1171 DOI link

  14. N.S. Strigul, C. Christodoulatos, S.M. Nicolich, and W.J. Braida. 2006. The Assessment of the Energetic Compound 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-Hexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20) Degradability in Soil. Environmental Pollution. 139(2): 353-361 DOI link

  15. A. Koutsospyros, W.J. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, and N.S. Strigul, 2006. A Review of Tungsten: from Environmental Obscurity to Scrutiny. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 136(1): 1-19 DOI link

  16. H. Dette, V.B. Melas, and N.S. Strigul. 2005 Application of Optimal Experimental Design in Microbiology. in Applied Optimal Designs, M. Berger and W.K. Wong (Eds), Willey & Sons, 137-180. (invited book chapter). ISBN: 9780470856970. DOI link

  17. N.S. Strigul, A. Koutsospyros, P. Arienti, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, and W.J. Braida. 2005. Effects of Tungsten on Environmental Systems. Chemosphere 61 (2): 248-258 DOI link

  18. H. Dette, V.B. Melas, A. Pepelyshev, and N.S. Strigul. 2005. Design of Experiments in the Monod Model - Robust and Efficient Designs. Journal of Theoretical Biology 234 (4): 537-550 DOI link

  19. D. Dermatas, W.J. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, N.S. Strigul, N.S. Panikov, M. Los, and S. Larson. 2004. Solubility, Sorption, and Soil Respiration Effects of Tungsten and Tungsten Alloys. Environmental Forensics 5(1): 5 - 13 DOI link

  20. L.V. Kravchenko, N.S. Strigul, and I.A. Shvytov. 2004. Mathematical Modeling of the Dynamics of Interacting Populations of Rhizosphere Microorganisms. Microbiology. 73 (2): 189-195 DOI link

  21. H. Dette, V.B. Melas, A. Pepelyshev, and N.S. Strigul. 2003. Efficient Design of Experiments in the Monod Model. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series B. 65: 725-742 DOI link

  22. V.B. Melas, A. Pepelyshev and N.S. Strigul. 2002. Optimal Experimental Design for Non-linear Regression Models Used in Microbiology. Journal of the V.I. Smirnov Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics. p. 91-112 (in Russian)

  23. N.S. Strigul. 2001. Observations of the Common Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) Pairs, Successfully Raising Two Broods per Summer. The Russian Journal of Ornithology.157: 742-752 (in Russian)

  24. V.B. Melas and N.S. Strigul. 1999. Investigation of the Non-linear Regression Monod Model by the Statistical Modeling. Statistical Modeling in Econometric and Related Fields. 118-127 (in Russian)


Scientific popular papers

  1. N.S. Strigul, Y.N. Kryukova Field Trials of Pointing Dogs in the USA. Hunting and Fishing XXI century. 2006 Feb. p. 54-68

  2. N.S. Strigul, Y.N. Kryukova English Springer Spaniel Field Trials in the USA. Hunting and Fishing XXI century. 2004. Oct., p. 34-51 (in Russian)

  3. N.S. Strigul. Aquarium Design, Part 1, Zooprice, 2001, No.13-14, p.29-30; Part 2, Zooprice, 2001, No.15-16, p.32-33; Part 3, Zooprice, 2001, No.23, p.43-44.

  4. N.S. Strigul. Light in the Aquarium System, Part 1, Zooprice, 2001, No.9, p.18-19; Part 2, Zooprice, 2001, No.11, p.20-21.

  5. N.S. Strigul. Aquarium as the Biological System, Part 1, Zooprice, 2001, No.5, p.23-24; Part 2, Zooprice, 2001, No.7, p.23-25.

  6. N.S. Strigul. Filtration of Aquarium Water, Part 1, Zooprice, 2001, No.2, p.25-26; Part 2, Zooprice, 2001, No.3, p.25-26; Part 3, Zooprice, 2001, No.4, p.26-28.

  7. N.S. Strigul. Properties of Aquarium Water, Part 1, Zooprice, 2000, No.4, p.29-30; Part 2, Zooprice, 2000, No.5, p.23-24; Part 3, Zooprice, 2001, No.1, p. 25-26.

  8. N.S. Strigul. Basis of Aquaristic and Aquaculture, Part 1, Zooprice, 2000, No.2, p.24-25; Part 2, Zooprice, 2000, No.3, p.32-33.

  9. N.S. Strigul. Aquarium for Your Home, Zooprice, 2000, No.1, p.17-19.

  10. N.S. Strigul. Aquarium in Home and Human Health, World of Health, 1999, No.1, p.12-13.


Conference proceedings and preprints

  1. N. Strigul,L. Vaccari, C. Galdun, M. Wazne, W. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, and K. Jasinkiewicz 2008Comparative study of acute toxicity of different nanomaterials. Protection and Restoration of the Environment IX. Kefalonia Greece 29 June - 3 July 2008

  2. W.J. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas and N.S. Strigul. 2004. Munitions Grade Tungsten: Environmental Behavior, Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Protection and Restoration of the Environment, June 28 - July 3, Mikonos, Greece

  3. W.J. Braida, C. Chiristodoulatos, D. Dermatas, G.P. Korfiatis, N. Panikov, N.S. Strigul, and A.Koutsospyros. 2002. Environmental Effects of Tungsten Based Ammunition. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Protection and Restoration of the Environment, July 1-5. Skiathos Island, Greece.

  4. H. Dette, V.B. Melas, A. Pepelyshev and N.S. Strigul. 2002. Efficient Design of Experiments in the Monod Model. Technical report nr 307, Dept. of Mathematics, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, 29p.

  5. L.V. Kravchenko, N.S. Strigul, T.S. Azarova and I.A. Tikhonovich. 2000. Experimental and Mathematical Models of the Microbial-Plant System for Development of New Criteria in Plant Breeding. Proceeding of the 22nd EUCARPIA Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Section Meeting. St. Petersburg, Russia. p.165-168.

  6. N.S. Strigul. 2000. Mathematical Modeling of the Population Dynamics of Microorganisms in Plant Rhizospheres. PhD thesis report. St. Petersburg, 22 p. (in Russian)


Conferences

  1. N.S. Strigul 2010 Matreshka - a new model for scaling of forest dynamics from individual trees to the landscape level. Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting 2010, August 1-6, Pittsburgh, PA

  2. N.S. Strigul, 2009 Comparison of effects of poly- and mono-tungstates on plant growth. 25th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy. October 19-22, 2009. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

  3. N.S. Strigul, 2009 On the forest transient dynamics in the Perfect Plasticity Approximation model. January 5-8, 115th Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Washington, DC.

  4. N.S. Strigul, T. Ryan , 2009 Statistical modeling of temperature-dependent mercury toxicity to Bacillus subtilis. 109th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology May 17-21, 2009, Philadelphia, PA

  5. N.S. Strigul, A. Koutsospyros, and C. Christodoulatos. 2008. Tungsten speciation and ecotoxicology. SETAC North America 29th Annual Meeting. 16-20 November 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA.

  6. N.S. Strigul, L. Vaccari, C. Galdun, M. Wazne, W. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, K. Jasinkiewicz, 2008. Comparative study of acute toxicity of different nanomaterials. Protection and Restoration of the Environment IX. Kefalonia Greece 29 June - 3 July 2008

  7. N.S. Strigul, C. Galdun, L. Vaccari, W. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, O′Connor, 2008. Influence of speciation on acute tungsten toxicity Protection and Restoration of the Environment IX. Kefalonia Greece 29 June - 3 July 2008

  8. N.S. Strigul, 2007 On existence and stability of stationary forest canopies in the perfect plasticity approximation model. 2007 American Mathematical Society Fall Eastern Section Meeting. October 6-7, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ

  9. N.S. Strigul, D. Pristinski, S. Pacala, 2007 Canopy stability and scaling of forested ecosystems from individuals to the stand level. Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting 2007 August 5-10, 2007, San Jose, CA

  10. N.S. Strigul, 2007 Self-organization in socio-biological systems: from individual imitations to complex population patterns. 2007 American Mathematical Society Spring Eastern Section Meeting. April 14-15, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

  11. N.S. Strigul, D. Pristinski, S. Pacala, 2007 Analytically tractable approximation of a forest individual-based simulator. January 5-8, 113th National Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), New Orleans, LA.

  12. N.S. Strigul, D. Pristinski, S. Pacala, 2006 A new method of scaling of vegetation dynamics from individual level to forest ecosystem based on crown plasticity. Society of American Foresters 2006 National Convention, Pittsburg, PA.

  13. N.S. Strigul, D. Pristinski, S. Pacala, 2006 Crown plasticity and large-scale forest dynamics. A new method of modeling vegetation dynamics: analytical results. Ecological Society of America (ESA) 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.

  14. N.S. Strigul, 2006 Evaluation of tungsten′s transport and fate in environmental systems. 27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Montreal, Canada.

  15. Drew P., Lichstein, J., Kiona O., Strigul, N.S., Bohlman, S., Pacala, S. 2006 Building a mechanistic theory of forest biogeography. Ecological Society of America (ESA) 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.

  16. Drew P., Pacala, S., Strigul, N.S., Lichstein, J. 2006 Crown plasticity and competition for canopy space: an individual-based model parameterised for 250 US tree species. Natural disturbance-based silviculture - Managing for complexity. IUFRO Conference. May 14-18, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada

  17. N.S. Strigul, 2005 Review of Environmental Regulations of Tungsten in the Former USSR. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 26th Annual Meeting in North America, Maryland, 13-17 November 2005

  18. S. Pacala, D. Purves, K. Ogle, J. Lichstein, C. Wirth, A. Chen, E. Shevliakova, S. Malyshev, N. Strigul, 2005 Towards a Global Individual-based Model of Forest dynamics. 90th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 7 - 12, Montreal, Canada

  19. N.S. Strigul, 2005 Perspectives of Phytoremediation of Tungsten Contaminated Sites. The 230th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington, DC, Aug 28-Sept 1

  20. Koutsospyros, W. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas, N. Strigul 2005 Tungsten occurrence across environmental compartments. The 230th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington, DC, Aug 28-Sept 1

  21. N.S. Strigul, W.J. Braida, D. Dermatas, C. Christodoulatos and M. Los. 2004 Tungsten Effects on Soil Environments. 20th Annual International Conference on Contaminated Soil Sediments and Water, October 18-21, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  22. W.J. Braida, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas and N.S. Strigul. 2004. Munitions grade tungsten: environmental behavior, 7th International Conference on Protection and Restoration of the Environment, June 28 - July 3, Mikonos, Greece

  23. N.S. Strigul, W. Braida, N. Panikov, C. Christodoulatos, D. Dermatas and A. Koutsospyros. 2003 Environmental effects of munitions grade tungsten. SETAC 24th Annual Meeting in North America, November 9-13, Austin, Texas

  24. N. S. Strigul, C. Christodoulatos, S. M. Nicolich and W. Braida. 2003. Biodegradation of a New Energetic Compound CL-20 in Soil under the Different Incubation Conditions. 103rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC. May 18- 22.

  25. N.S. Strigul, C. Chiristodolatos W.J. Braida, and D. Dermatas. 2003. Environmental Effects of Tungsten from Tungsten Alloy Based Ammunition. The 13th. Annual West Coast Conference on Contaminated Soils, Sediments and Water, San Diego, CA. March 17-20.

  26. H. Dette, V.B. Melas, A. Pepelyshev and N.S. Strigul. 2002. Efficient Design of Experiments in the Monod Model. Mathematical Optimization Symposium, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. November 1. p.10.

  27. N.S. Strigul, C. Christodoulatos, S.M. Nicolich and N.S. Panikov. 2002. The Assessment of Toxicity and Biodegradability Of New Energetic Ingredient Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20) In Soil. Abstracts 18th Annual International Conference on Contaminated Soil Sediments and Water, October 21-24. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, p.146.

  28. N.S. Strigul, W.J. Braida, N. Panikov and C. Chiristodolatos. 2002. Tungsten Effects on Soil Biota and Soil-Plant Systems. Abstracts of Annual Meeting Society for Industrial Microbiology, August 11-15. Philadelphia, PA. p.107.

  29. W.J. Braida, C. Chiristodoulatos, D. Dermatas, G.P. Korfiatis, N. Panikov, N.S. Strigul, and A.Koutsospyros. 2002. Environmental Effects of Tungsten Based Ammunition. 6th International Conference on Protection and Restoration of the Environment, July 1-5. Skiathos Island, Greece.

  30. N.S. Strigul, L.V. Kravchenko, I.A. Tikhonovich, 2001. Survival of introduced bacteria strains in complex microbial communities: The mathematical modeling attempt. Ninth International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, 26-31 August, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  31. L.V. Kravchenko, N.S. Strigul, T.S. Azarova and I.A. Tikhonovich. 2000. Experimental and Mathematical Models of the Microbial-Plant System for Development of New Criteria in Plant Breeding. 22nd EUCARPIA Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Section Meeting. New Approaches and Techniques in Breeding Sustainable Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses. St. Petersburg, Russia.

  32. N.S. Strigul, L.V. Kravchenko. 2000. Application of the Mathematical Modeling for the Evaluation of the Bacterial Introduction in Soil. Abstracts of the IIIrd Congress of Dokuchaev Society of Soil Scientists. Moscow, v.2, p.55-56. (in Russian)

  33. N.S. Strigul. 1999. Application of the Point Mathematical Models for the Investigation of the Microbial Interactions in Rhizosphere. Abstracts of the research conference ″Contribution of the Young Scientists to the Development of Agricultural Technology″, St. Petersburg, Russia, p.53-54. (in Russian)

  34. N.S. Strigul. 1999. Identification of the Kinetic Growth Parameters of Rhizosphere Microorganisms. Abstracts of the All-Russian research conference ″Plant and Soil″, St. Petersburg Russia, p. 212-214.

  35. N.S. Strigul, T.S. Azarova and L.V. Kravchenko. 1998. Mathematical Simulation of the Microbial Uptake of Organic Compounds Exuded by Plant Roots. Abstracts of the All-Russian conference ″Soil Microbiology and Agriculture″, St. Petersburg, Russia. p.122. (in Russian)