
Hana Dobrovolny, Ph.D.
h.dobrovolny@tcu.edu817-257-6379SWR 142
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D (Physics) Duke University, 2008
M.A (Physics) Bryn Mawr College, 2000
B.Sc (Physics and Mathematics) University of Winnipeg, 1997
Areas of Focus
- Computational Biophysics
- Viral infections
- Cancer
- Beach, I., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025 ``The effect of antibodies in the presence of syncytia during viral infections'', Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 87:76.
- Gerg, A., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025 ``Quantifying the effect of HIV receptor surface density reveals differences in fusion dynamics of HIV strains'', Viruses 17:583.
- Suri, A., S. Sahani, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Analyzing Dynamical Differences Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated RSV Patients'', Epidemiologia 6:16.
- Botmann, N.K., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025 ``Assessing the Role of Model Choice in Parameter Identifiability of Cancer Treatment Efficacy,'' Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics 11:1542617.
- McCarthy, G., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Determining the best mathematical model for implementation of NPIs,'' Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 22(3):700--724.
- H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``How do viruses get around? A review of mathematical modeling of in-host viral transmission'', Virology 604:110444.
- Glaschke, S., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Spatiotemporal spread of oncolytic virus in a heterogeneous cell population,'' Computers in Biology and Medicine 183:109235.
- Polavarapu, N., M. Doty, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Exploring the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 with modified vesicular stomatitis virus,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology 595:111959.
- Gonzalez-Parra, G., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Mathematical foundations in biological modelling and simulation,'' Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 21(9):7084–7086.
- Noffel, Z., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Modeling the bystander effect during viral coinfection,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology 594:111928.
- A. Chiarelli, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, 'Viral Rebound After Antiviral Treatment: A Mathematical Modeling Study of the Role of Antiviral Mechanism of Action', Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences
- A. Amidei, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, `Virus-mediated cell fusion of SARS-CoV-2 variants', Mathematical Biosciences.
- I. Gadiyar, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2023, `Different routes of infection of H5N1 lead to changes in infecting time,' Mathematical Biosciences 367:109129
- H.M. Dobrovolny, 2023, `Mathematical modeling of virus-mediated syncytia formation: Past successes and future directions', Syncytia: Origin, Structure, and Functions, accepted
- Z. Noffel, Z., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2023, `Quantifying the effect of defective viral genomes in respiratory syncytial virus', Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 20(7):12666--12681
Guo, E., S. Satani, A. Suri, R. Padmasolala, S. Makam, T. Yadav, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Incorporating the immune response into models of oncolytic virus treatment of cancer'', Society of Mathematical Biology, Edmonton, AB (invited)
Matthews, P., M. Doty, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Time-varying viral production in virus dynamics models'', Society of Mathematical Biology, Edmonton, AB (invited)
McCarthy, G., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Applications of Mathematical Models of Virus to Mpox'', TSAPS Spring meeting, Houston, TX
Gerg, A., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Using alpha shapes to quantify spatial heterogeneity in virus-mediated syncytia formation'', APS Global Summit, Anaheim, CA
Garrett, C., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Dynamics of polyaneuploid cancer cell quiescence under stress'', APS Global Summit, Anaheim, CA
Gerg, A., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Quantifying Spatial Heterogeneity of Syncytial Cells using Alpha Shapes'', SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Fort Worth, TX
Kharki, B., T. McHenry, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Identifiability analysis of cancer growth models from dose response curves'', SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Fort Worth, TX
McCarthy, G., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2025, ``Identifiability of cell-cell fusion assays'', SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Fort Worth, TX
Garrett, C., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Dynamics of polyaneuploid cancer cell quiescence under stress'', TSAPS Fall meeting, Dallas, TX
Suri, A., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Analyzing Dynamical Differences Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated'', TSAPS Fall meeting, Dallas, TX
Gerg, A., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Quantifying Spatial Heterogeneity of Syncytial Cells'', TSAPS Fall meeting, Dallas, TX (Winner of best graduate poster)
McCarthy, G., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Structural and Practical Identifiability Analysis of Models of Scyncytia Formation'', TSAPS Fall meeting, Dallas, TX
Rehmatullah, M., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Characterization of a cell-adapted oncolytic virus'', Eastern Great Lakes Section of APS Fall meeting, Marietta, OH
Dobrovolny, H.M., 2024, `` Infectious physics: Using physics to help us understand respiratory viral coinfections'', Texas A&M Commerce physics colloquium,(invited)
McCarthy, G., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Structural and Practical Identifiability Analysis of Models for Syncytia Growth'', TSAPS Spring meeting, Stephenville, TX
Gerg, A., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Nonlinear Analysis of HIV Type-1 Syncytia Formation'', TSAPS Spring meeting, Stephenville, TX
Amidei, A., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Modeling and characterization of virus-mediated cell fusion assays'', TSAPS Spring meeting, Stephenville, TX
Kalra, M., S. Kalra, H.M. Dobrovolny}, 2024, ``Finding the Optimal IFN Response For Oncolytic Virus Treatment'', ABRCMS ePoster Symposium, virtual
Yadav, T., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Oncolytic Virus and the Interferon Response'', ABRCMS ePoster Symposium, virtual
Talagadadeeva, S., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Modeling of infrared detection of cancer miRNA'', ABRCMS ePoster Symposium, virtual
Amidei, A.}, E. Guo, L. Pinky, B. Fain, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Maximizing insight into viral infections using within host mathematical models'', JPS Research & Quality Symposium, Fort Worth, TX
Gerg, A., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Density Dependence: A Nonlinear Analysis of HIV Syncytium in Drug-Treated Transfection'', JPS Research & Quality Symposium, Fort Worth, TX
Dobrovolny, H.M., 2024, ``Syncytia formation: The dynamics of virus-mediated cell fusion'', Idaho State University physics colloquium, virtual (invited)
Amidei, A., G. McCarthy, H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``Modeling and characterization of virus-mediated cell fusion assays'', APS March meeting, Minneapolis, MN
Sage, H., H.M. Dobrovolny, 2024, ``The effect of density-dependent infection on ODE models of viral dynamics'', APS March meeting, Minneapolis, MN
- Society for Mathematical Biology
- American Physical Society
- Canadian Association of Physicists
- American Association of Physics Teachers
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Advanced Laboratory Physics Association
- Sigma Xi
Last Updated: August 22, 2025