Biography

Dr. Kropinski completed her PhD at Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993, under the supervision of Julian Cole and Don Schwendeman. She then held a postdoctoral appointment at the Courant Institute, NYU working with Leslie Greengard on integral equation methods for the Stokes and Navier Stokes equations.

Awarded an NSERC Woman's faculty Award, Kropinski joined the faculty at SFU in 1995. She was promoted to associate professor in 2001. She served on the NSERC Grants Selection Committee for Pure and Applied Mathematics B from 2002-2005 and has been an active reviewer for the Journal of Computational Physics and SIAM.