Nevena Maric is an associate professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the Department of mathematics and computer science. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Sao Paulo. Her main area of research is in probability theory and stochastic processes. She is interested in large systems of interacting components where the interaction is governed by probability laws. The processes she has been studying include some interacting particle systems, as well as some point processes. Computational problems and perfect simulation techniques are also part of her research interests.