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Alexandria Volkening is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Purdue University, and she got her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University. She studies all sorts of stuff with math: zebrafish patterns, of course, but also political elections, social media, and crowds of people—turns out lots of things follow rules of behavior that can be described mathematically! Her favorite fish to simulate (so far) is zebrafish, but her favorite fish for dinner is salmon. And no, she does not have any pet zebrafish, so she always enjoys visiting biologists’ labs to see them!