Sophia Santillan, B.S.E 2001
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University - Durham, NC
2001 Major: B.S. Engineering, Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering; M.S in Mechanical Engineering, 2005; and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and certificate in Nonlinear Complex Systems, 2007
How has being a Mathematics graduate from Duke helped shape you personally and/or professionally?
"I really enjoyed my math classes at Duke! One in particular that I took in later years of undergraduate sparked my interest in what I ended up studying in graduate school."
What advice would you give students in Duke's Mathematics programs?
"I think majoring in something that overlaps with Math was really useful for me. I was able to study the theory but also learn about direct applications of what I learned through a different lens."
