Dr Jelena Schmalz
Lecturer - School of Science and Technology
Phone: +61 2 6773 2669
Email: jschmalz@une.edu.au
Biography
Dr Schmalz completed her Masters degree in Mathematics at Moscow State Lomonossov University. In 2005, she moved to Australia and started working for UNE as a casual academic. Dr Schmalz completed a PhD in Physics in 2014 under the supervision of Dr Konstantin Pavlov (UNE) and Dr Timur Gureev (Monash University). The topic of her theses was “Investigations of Some Direct and Inverse Problems in X-Ray In-line Phase-Contrast Imaging and Tomography”. Since 2017, Dr Schmalz has been a member of the discipline of mathematics at UNE. Her research is in applied mathematics. Dr Schmalz is interested in applications to X-ray imaging and tomography, to sport science, and to cryptography. Her interest in tertiary education is based on many years of experience in teaching mathematics.
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Physics, University of New England in 2014
M.Sc. in Mathematics, Moscow State Lomonossov University in 1986
Teaching Areas
First year mathematics, Number Theory, and other undergraduate units.
Elliptic Curves in Cryptography
Research Interests
Maths applications, X-ray imaging, and tertiary education.
Publications
Woolcott, Geoff; Mason, Raina; Markopoulos, Christos; Boyd, William; Chen, Ouhao; Seton, Carolyn; Lake, Warren; Whannell, Robert; Foster, Alan; Galligan, Linda; Marshman, Margaret; Schmalz, Jelena; Sultanova, Nargis How are we progressing with academic numeracy at regional universities? Perspectives from first-year undergraduate studies. Mathematics Education Research Journal DOI: 10.1007/s13394-020-00312-3 2020
Woolcott, Geoff; Mason, Raina; Markopoulos, Christos; Boyd, William; Chen, Ouhao; Seton, Carolyn; Lake, Warren; Whannell, Robert; Foster, Alan; Galligan, Linda; Marshman, Margaret; Schmalz, Jelena; Sultanova, Nargiz Bite Size Maths: Building Mathematics Low Socioeconomic Student Capability in Regional/Remote Australia
10.6084/m9.figshare.6983945.v1 2017
Schmalz, Jelena; Pavlov, Konstantin; Gureyev, Timur Investigations of Some Direct and Inverse Problems in X-Ray In-Line Phase-Contrast Imaging and Tomography https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16972 Thesis Doctoral (T2), 2014
Thomas W. Baillie, Timur E. Gureyev, Jelena A. Schmalz, Konstantin M. Pavlov, Phase-contrast X-ray tomography using Teague’s Method (Optics Express 20(15):16913-16925 · 2012)
Konstantin M. Pavlov, David M. Paganin, David J. Vines, Jelena A. Schmalz, Yoshio Suzuki, Kentaro Uesugi, Akihisa Takeuchi, Naoto Yagi, Alexander Kharchenko, Gabriel Blaj, Jan Jakubek, Matteo Altissimo, Jesse Clark, Quantized harh-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolenses (Phys. Rev. A 83, 013813 – 2011)
Jelena A. Schmalz, Timur E. Gureyev, David M. Paganin, Konstantin M. Pavlov, Validity of Teague’s method for solution of the transport-of-intensity equation (Physical review A 84 (2), 023808 - 2011)
JA Schmalz, G Schmalz, TE Gureyev, KM Pavlov On the derivation of the Green’s function for the Helmholtz equation using generalized functions (American Journal of Physics 78 (2), 181-186 - 2010)
Memberships
Australian Mathematical Society
Community and Advocacy Organisation Collaborations
Outreach: website for high school students and teachers
