Justin Eilertsen received his Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Florida State University. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher for Santiago Schnell in the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Eilertsen is interested in nonlinear dynamics, and his research has been in applying dynamical systems theory, bifurcation theory, and geometric singular perturbation theory to problems in physics, chemistry and biology.