Eduan Martínez-Soto is the program manager of the Choose Ohio First (COF) scholarship at The Ohio State University. He was born and raised in San Juan, the capital city of Puerto Rico. During his days of high school showed great interests and enthusiasm for research and it was there when he first learned about biomathematics. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biomathematics at Universidad Ana G. Méndez Recinto de Rio Piedras, formerly named as Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) Recinto de Cupey and at the same time became the first student to graduate from Ana G. Méndez University System Institute of Mathematics Program under the National Science Foundation grant in 2013. He also received a Master of Mathematical Sciences degree in Mathematical Biosciences with a focus in Epidemiology from The Ohio State University in 2016. His thesis topic was: Understanding the Role of Health Care Workers in a Trade-Off Model between Contact and Transmission for Ebola Virus Disease which consists in the development and analysis of a new mathematical model to interpret under what conditions healthcare workers became important drivers of transmission during the deadliest West Africa Ebola Outbreak in 2014-15.
He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education program of the Teaching and Learning Department at Ohio State. His research interests focus on how teachers use technology in the mathematics classroom in order to promote student learning, student engagement, and social justice. Prior his current collaboration with the College of Engineering, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and regional campuses at Ohio State, he was a lecturer for the Department of Mathematics in which joined programs such as the Young Scholars Program, PREFACE, EMPATH, Spring Forward, and has been recognized with the Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer in 2020.
Eduan will present about his internship experiences he has been involved at different institutions across the United States such as Oregon Health and Science University, University of Texas at El Paso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, University of California Riverside, Ohio State in the CIR chat session on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 from 5:30pm-7:00pm in Smith Lab Room 1009 (SM1009).
