Rate My Professor Jelena Schmalz

Dr. Schmalz's research is in applied mathematics, focusing on applications to X-ray imaging and tomography, sport science, and cryptography. She is part of the Mathematical Analysis and Modelling research group. Her teaching includes first-year mathematics, Number Theory, Multivariable Calculus (PMTH412), Introduction to Quantitative Skills (MTHS100), and Elliptic Curves in Cryptography. Key publications include “Phase retrieval using radiation and matter-wave fields: Validity of Teague's method for solution of the transport-of-intensity equation” (Physical Review A, 2011; 77 citations), “On the derivation of the Green’s function for the Helmholtz equation using generalized functions” (American Journal of Physics, 2010; 41 citations), “Phase-contrast X-ray tomography using Teague’s method” (Optics Express, 2012; 7 citations), “Quantized hard-x-ray phase vortices nucleated by aberrated nanolenses” (Physical Review A, 2011; 10 citations), “How are we progressing with academic numeracy at regional universities? Perspectives from first-year undergraduate studies” (Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2020; 9 citations), “Bite Size Maths: Building Mathematics Low Socioeconomic Student Capability in Regional/Remote Australia” (2017), “An examination of the security of the TR-31 and AS 2805 schemes” (2023), “Modelling Human Gait using a Nonlinear Differential Equation” (2021), and “Keyed S-boxes from sponge functions” (2024). Her publications have received 118 citations on ResearchGate.