Sue Ann Campbell is a Canadian applied mathematician and computational neuroscientist known for her work on dynamical systems, delay differential equations, and their applications in modeling neural networks, population dynamics, and balance. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo, former chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics,[1] associate dean for research and international in the university's Faculty of Mathematics,[2] and president of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society.
Campbell has a bachelor's degree in mathematics (B.Math.) from the University of Waterloo, earned in 1986.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 1991 at Cornell University. Her dissertation, The Effects of Symmetry on the Dynamics of Low-Dimensional Modal Interactions, was supervised by Philip Holmes.[4]
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montreal before taking an assistant professor position at Concordia University. She returned to the University of Waterloo as an assistant professor in 1994.[5]
She was elected as president of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society in 2021, for a term beginning in 2023.[6]
Campbell was the 2005 winner of the Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society.[7]