Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Ferrero, Daniela. Travel Grant: AWM Workshop on Graph Theory and Applications at SIAM Annual Meeting, AWM, $25000. (Submitted: May 2021, Funded: July 2022). Grant.
- Ferrero, Daniela (Co-Principal), Benson, Katie (Co-Principal), Flagg, Mary (Co-Principal), Hogben, Leslie (Co-Principal), Vasilevska, Violeta (Co-Principal). REUF: Research for Undergraduate Faculty Program, NSF / AIM (American Institute of Mathematics), $6437.78. (Funded: July 2017). Grant.
- Ferrero, Daniela. Association for Women in Mathematics - Travel Grant, NSF, AWM/NSF, $2000. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
- Ferrero, Daniela (Co-Principal), Hogben, Leslie (Principal). REUF Research Continuation Program, NSF, American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), $1000. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
- Ferrero, Daniela. REUF Program, NSF, AIM (American Institute of Mathematics) & ICERM (Institute of Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics), $1000. (Funded: 2015). Grant.

Featured scholarly/creative works
- Ferrero, D., Gregorious, C., Kalinowski, T., Ryan, J., & Stephen, S. (2019). Minimum rank and zero forcing number for butterfly networks. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 37(3), 970–988. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-018-0335-1
- Ferrero, D., Boyer, K., Brimkov, B., English, S., Keller, A., Kirsch, R., … Reinhart, C. (2019). The zero forcing polynomial of a graph. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 258, 35–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2018.11.033
- Bozeman, C., Brimkov, B., Erickson, C., Ferrero, D., Flagg, M., & Hogben, L. (2019). Restricted power domination and zero forcing problems. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 33(3), 935–956. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-018-0330-6
- Ferrero, D., Kalinowski, T., & Stephen, S. (2019). Zero forcing in iterated line digraphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 255, 198–208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2018.08.019
- Deines, A., Ferrero, D., Graham, E., Manore, C., Price, C., & Seong Im, M. (Eds.). (2018). Advances in the Mathematical Sciences. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98684-5
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: One Math Professor Award, Pearson’s - Mathematical Association of America. 2015
- Award / Honor Recipient: Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Honors College at Texas State University. 2013
- Award / Honor Recipient: ERUDITE Fellowship, Government of Kerala, India. 2009
- Award / Honor Recipient: Runner-Up Excellence in Research Award, College of Science. 2006
- Award / Honor Recipient: Mentor Award Siemens-Westinghouse Competition on Math Science and Technology 2004-05, Siemens Foundation. 2005

Featured service activities
- Other
Panelist
- Other
Reviewer
- Member
Steering Committee of the AWM Research Network WIGA (Women in Graph Theory and Applications) sponsored by the NSF grant AWM Advances
- Editorial Review Board Member
La Matematics (Springer)
- Member
Graduate College Scholarship Review Committee
- Reviewer / Referee
Discrete Applied Mathematics
