CV

Curriculum vitae of Cole Gruninger.

Contact Information

Name Cole Gruninger
Professional Title Peter M. Curran Visiting Assistant Professor
Email cgruninger@fordham.edu
Location Department of Mathematics, Fordham University, Bronx, New York

Professional Summary

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Fordham University working on numerical methods for partial differential equations, immersed boundary methods, fluid–structure interaction, and complex fluids.

Experience

  • 2025 - Present

    Bronx, NY

    Peter M. Curran Visiting Assistant Professor
    Fordham University
    Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics.

Education

  • - 2025

    Chapel Hill, NC

    Ph.D.
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Mathematics
    • Advisors: Boyce E. Griffith and M. Gregory Forest
  • - 2020

    Chapel Hill, NC

    B.S. and B.A.
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chemistry (Honors) and Mathematics
    • Double major

Awards

  • 2022
    National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Fellowship
    U.S. Department of Defense
  • 2019
    James H. Maguire Memorial Award
    Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • 2019
    Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests

Numerical methods for partial differential equations: finite difference and finite element methods, fluid-structure interaction, immersed boundary methods, mimetic discretizations
Complex fluids: viscoelastic and non-Newtonian fluid-structure-interaction
Electrochemistry: electrochemical modeling, rotating disc electrode voltammetry, multi-electron catalysis, parameter and reaction mechanism inference

Talks

  • Orthogonality preserving regularized delta functions for staggered grid discretizations: theory and applications to fluid–structure and electromagnetic problems. AMCS Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. April 6, 2026.
  • The math of market madness. Fordham Math Club, Bronx, NY. February 11, 2026.
  • Orthogonality preserving regularized delta functions for staggered grid discretizations: theory and applications to fluid–structure and electromagnetic problems. Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting, NYU Courant. November 6, 2025.
  • Elucidating connections between geometry and mechanics. Fordham Math Club, Bronx, NY. October 1, 2025.
  • Benchmarking the immersed boundary method for viscoelastic flows. SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, Fort Worth, TX. March 2025.
  • Advancing the immersed boundary method: viscoelastic applications and volume conservation improvements. Department of Mathematics Colloquium, Fordham University, Bronx, NY. 2025.
  • Improving the volume conservation properties of the immersed boundary method using composite B-spline regularized delta functions. 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics, Vancouver, Canada. July 2024.
  • Benchmarking the immersed boundary method for viscoelastic flows and improving the volume conservation properties of the immersed boundary method using composite B-spline regularized delta functions. Fifth Annual NDSEG Conference, New Orleans, LA. July 2024.
  • Benchmarking the immersed boundary method for viscoelastic flows. AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, UNC-Wilmington. May 2023.

Poster Presentations

  • Benchmarking the immersed boundary method for viscoelastic flows and improving the volume conservation properties of the immersed boundary method using composite B-spline regularized delta functions. Computational Tools for PDEs with Complicated Geometries and Interfaces, Flatiron Institute. June 2024.

Teaching

  • Fordham University, Peter M. Curran Visiting Assistant Professor. Spring 2026: Math 1100 — Finite Mathematics; Calculus II recitation leader. Fall 2025: Math 1108 — Finite Mathematics for Business (two sections).
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Graduate Teaching Assistant. Fall 2020: MATH 383 — A First Course in Differential Equations. Spring 2021: MATH 381 — Discrete Mathematics. Summer 2021: MATH 233 — Calculus of Functions of Several Variables.

Skills

Programming (Proficient): Python, MATLAB, C++, Julia, LaTeX

References

  • Available upon request