Career
Her research involves developing and applying tools for modeling and simulating biomolecules. Schlick did her undergraduate studies at Wayne State University, graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Surgery in mathematics. She continued her graduate studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, completing a Doctor of Philosophy in applied mathematics in 1987 under the supervision of Charles South. Peskin.
After postdoctoral studies at New York University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, she returned as a faculty member to New York University in 1989.
She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004), American Physical Society (2005), Biophysical Society (2012), and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2012).