Marcela Ordorica Arango is a Ph.D. student in the Princeton Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, co-advised by Professors Naomi Leonard and Simon Levin.

Her research centers on understanding how human behavior and information transmission influence the spread of epidemics and other contagion phenomena in networks.  By developing and analyzing mathematical models, she explores the impact of individual behaviors on these dynamics.

Before arriving at Princeton, Marcela earned both a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).  For her master’s thesis, she worked on a mathematical model that explored how post-transcriptional regulation network structures contribute to the robustness of neural homeostatic regulation.