Dr. Jomar Fajardo Rabajante is Dean of the Graduate School, University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). He is a Full Professor (Professor 12) and UP Scientist at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, UPLB, and an affiliate faculty member of the Faculty of Education, UP Open University. He is a 2021 Outstanding Young Scientist awardee of the National Academy of Science and Technology, and previously held an appointment as Junior Associate (2019-2024) at the Quantitative Life Sciences Group of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. His research centers on algorithm development, mathematical modeling, quantitative risk assessment, and data analytics of complex biological and social systems, with particular emphasis on infectious disease dynamics and One Health applications.

Dr. Rabajante is a fellow of the UP Resilience Institute and a member of the UP COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team. He has served as a research collaborator/consultant to organizations including the Asian Development Bank, United Nations Population Fund, Zuellig Family Foundation, World Vision/START Network, PhilRice, Merck, the Department of Finance, Task Force T3, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, and the Province of Bataan. He is a lead member of the Modelling Infectious Diseases in South East Asia (MIDSEA) Network, and serves as a board member of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines and the Philippine Society for Mathematical Biology.

He earned his Doctor of Science in Mathematical and Systems Engineering (Environment and Energy Systems) from Shizuoka University, Japan (Japanese Government Monbusho scholar) in 2016; his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (Mathematics in Life and Physical Sciences) from the University of the Philippines Diliman (DOST scholar); a Global Master Certificate in Business Analytics from the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University; and his B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (Operations Research) from UPLB. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Education (Curriculum Studies and Learning Sciences) at Edgewood University in Madison, Wisconsin. He also completed a Higher Education Teaching Certificate from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University; a Medical Statistics Certificate from Stanford University; and a Professional Certificate in Online Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Rabajante has held academic and research appointments as Visiting Professor at the Department of Biology, Carleton University (Canada), Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (Germany), and Visiting Scientist at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Canada). He attended research schools in mathematical epidemiology at Imperial College London (St. Mary’s Hospital) and in systems biology at The Ohio State University, and served as a mentor in the Future Leaders Programme of the National University of Singapore.

He has mentored numerous undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD students, and is among the proponents of the PhD in Applied Mathematics—the first doctorate degree in Applied Mathematics in the Philippines—as well as the PhD by Research (Data Analytics and Informatics) program at UPLB.