Associate Dean for Research

Elena Naumova, Associate Dean for Research
Elena Naumova, Associate Dean for Research, is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, an adjunct professor at The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutritional Science and Policy, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. The School of Engineering Office of Research is responsible for creating a supportive environment to enhance research productivity and active scholarship. It initiates, supports and sustains programs and activities to increase faculty participation in research with an emphasis on collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts. The Office of Research is also responsible for working with the remainder of the Dean's Office to effectively communicate both internally and externally the many advances made by faculty and students.

Professor Naumova received her doctorate at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia in 1988. Professor Naumova's area of expertise is in methodology development for modeling of transient processes with application in environmental epidemiology, infectious diseases, and public health. Her research on developing innovative analytical and computational tools for monitoring environmentally-driven infections and longitudinal studies of growth is funded by NIAID, NIEHS, and EPA. She is a Director of the Tufts Initiative for Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Diseases (InForMID). She is a member of the American Public Health Association, The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, The International Environmetrics Society, and the American Statistical Association

Administrative Contact:

Ariel Sroka
Anderson Hall, Room 109
617-627-5713