Academics

Research

My thesis is on early warning signals for epidemiological regime shifts. I work on cholera dynamics, and on where deep-learning early warning methods stop being reliable.

The wider interest is mathematical biology and applied dynamical systems. Most of it comes down to thresholds — the point at which a population stops recovering, or a disease outbreak changes character. The reason for locating them is to do it while management decisions still have time to matter. Work in progress includes density-dependent hybridization and reproductive interference models.

Filming is where a lot of these questions start. I spend enough time watching animals that the modeling questions tend to arrive from the field.

Education

• Expected Fall 2026 MS, Applied Mathematics University of Tennessee at Chattanooga · Advisor: Dr. Xiunan Wang
•   BS, Mathematics Dalton State College · Cum Laude

Publications

ORCID 0009-0002-7834-4439

• When the Study Becomes the Stressor

  A. Stuckey · Schizophrenia Bulletin · 2026 · DOI 10.1093/schbul/sbag094

• Fish space use and behavior in an aquarium: the use of microhabitats as enrichment

  Zoo Biology · 2026 · DOI 10.1002/zoo.70061

Talks & Outreach

•   Finding Patterns Underwater: Photography, Light, and Geometry South Florida Freediver Festival
•   Underwater photography and filter changes First LEGO League robotics team, East Side Elementary School, Chattanooga

Endowed Award

• UTC Andrew Stuckey Endowed Graduate Award in Applied Mathematics and Environmental Sciences I established this award to support graduate students interested in a similar path to mine, working across mathematics, computational science, and environmental science.

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