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Tomas Gedeon is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, where he began as an Assistant Professor in 1994, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2000, and to full Professor in 2006. Earlier in his career, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University from 1994 to 1995, Research and Teaching Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1990 to 1994, Assistant Professor at Technical University in Bratislava from 1990 to 1993, and Teaching Assistant at Comenius University in Bratislava in 1989-1990. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology (1994), with dissertation "Cyclic feedback systems" supervised by Konstantin Mischaikow, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Comenius University, Bratislava (1989).

Gedeon's research specializes in applied dynamical systems with applications to biological models, particularly network dynamics in cell biology, gene regulation, systems biology, mathematical neuroscience, topological data analysis, microbiology, and molecular biology. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications, including "Network topology and interaction logic determine states it supports" (npj Systems Biology and Applications, 2024), "Multistability and predominant hybrid phenotypes in a four node mutually repressive network of Th1/Th2/Th17/Treg differentiation" (npj Systems Biology and Applications, 2024), "Cellular Economics of Exchanged Metabolites Alter Ratios of Microbial Trading Partners in Predictable Manner" (ACS Synthetic Biology, 2025), "Petri net on expanded Boolean network computes Morse graphs of ODE models" (Interface Focus, 2025), and "Lattice structures that parameterize regulatory network dynamics" (Mathematical Biosciences, 2024). Gedeon has graduated 14 Ph.D. students in Mathematics and related fields between 2003 and 2024 and hosted several postdoctoral researchers. His honors include appointment as College of Letters and Sciences Distinguished Professor (2012-2015), Cox Family Award for Creative Scholarship and Teaching (2010), Dean's Award for Meritorious Research and Creativity (2010), Kopriva Lecture (2012), and Provost's Distinguished Lecture series (2015). He currently serves as Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics and Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B.