Dr. Marius Mitrea, formerly Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri, became a member of the Department of Mathematics at Baylor University in 2019. He joins his wife, Dorina Mitrea, who became the new Chair of Baylor's Department of Mathematics. Marius Mitrea earned his M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1988. Prior to moving to the U.S., he taught at the University of Bucharest and then held a research position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy until 1996.

Marius Mitrea earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1994 from the University of South Carolina under the direction of Björn Jawerth. From 1994-1996, he held a three-year post-doctoral position at the University of Minnesota, working with Eugene Fabes. He then joined the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia in August 1996. Professor Mitrea is a Fellow of AMS, and has more than 180 journal publications and 17 research monographs.

Marcus Laurel is a young mathematician affiliated with Baylor university working at the confluence of geometry, harmonic analysis, and PDE. His interests lie in layer potential methods to solve boundary value problems for elliptic systems, as well as function space theory in rough geometric settings. He received his B.S. in Mathematics in 2018 and earned the distinction of an outstanding thesis.