Johnathan M. Bardsley is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Montana, where he has been teaching since 2003. He has held long-term visiting professorships at the University of Helsinki, Finland; University of Otago, New Zealand; Technical University of Denmark; and Monash University, Australia, supported by the Gordon Preston Sabbatical Fellowship. Professor Bardsley was a postdoctoral fellow at the NSF-funded Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute during its inaugural year in 2002-03. In 2017, he received the Chancellor's Medallion Award from Montana Tech for excellence in his educational and professional career and for significant contributions to his academic discipline. Professor Bardsley's research interests focus on inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, computational mathematics, and computational statistics, and he has published many refereed journal articles in these areas.