Diana Thomas

Diana Maria Thomas is an American applied mathematician known for her research on nutrition and body weight.[1][2][3] She is a professor of mathematics at the United States Military Academy (West Point).[4]

This article is about the mathematician and nutritionist. For the American politician and educator from Idaho, see Diana Thomas (politician). For the screenwriter, see Diane Thomas.

Thomas earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1996 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Dynamics of Lattice Systems, was supervised by Shui-Nee Chow.[5] After postdoctoral research at West Point and the Army Research Laboratory, she joined the faculty at New Jersey City University in 1998, and moved to Montclair State University in 2000.[6] In 2017, she returned to West Point as a professor.[4]

Topics in her research have included a comparison of the effects of dieting and exercise on weight loss,[1] the effects of weight loss on pregnancy,[2] epidemiological approaches to obesity,[3] and the use of biometric data to predict military training injuries.[7]

References
  1. Reynolds, Gretchen (August 1, 2012), "Dieting vs. Exercise for Weight Loss", The New York Times
  2. Mann, Leslie (February 19, 2015), "Losing weight before pregnancy is healthier for mom, baby", Chicago Tribune
  3. Servick, Kelly (February 19, 2017), "Should we treat obesity like a contagious disease?", Science
  4. Dr. Diana Thomas, Professor of Mathematics, United States Military Academy, retrieved 2019-09-29
  5. Diana Thomas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "Getting to know: Diana M. Thomas, Editorial board member, EJCN", European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 66 (9): 977–977, September 2012, doi:10.1038/ejcn.2012.38
  7. World Class Faculty: Dr. Diana Thomas, Department of Mathematics, United States Military Academy, retrieved 2019-09-29
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