Florida State University Panama City is pleased to welcome new faculty member Govinda Pageni, who will begin teaching mathematics courses at FSU Panama City in the Fall 2022 semester.

Before joining FSU Panama City, he worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He received his B.A. and M.S. in Mathematics from Tribhuvan University in 2007 and 2012. He also received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2018 and 2022, respectively.

Pageni has a huge passion for teaching, as he loves to change the way students view math. He has always revered teaching as a profession and has taught numerous undergraduate mathematics courses for many years before joining FSU Panama City. Teaching is his big focus; one of his favorite things is helping a student who feels that they cannot survive a math class understand and appreciate the material. He enjoys teaching a variety of math classes and hopes to get involved with undergraduate research at FSU PC. His primary research is in the field of differential equations with fractional order with the concentration in a system of fractional differential equations via the Laplace Transform method, and he is using this emerging branch to study the epidemiological models of infectious diseases. He is also interested in mathematical biology.

Pageni is excited to have the opportunity to experience living in beautiful Panama City. His interests include playing and watching soccer; fitness; and he enjoys spending his free time on beautiful beaches.