Erida Gjini
Contact details:
Room 522, Mathematics Building
Department of Mathematics
University Gardens
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QW
Tel.: +44 (0)141 330 8510
Fax: +44 (0)141 330 4111
E-mail: e.gjini@maths.gla.ac.uk
Academic History
- 2007- present: PhD "Evolutionary dynamics of parasite genome diversification" at Glasgow University. My PhD is supervised by Dr. Christina Cobbold, Prof. Dan Haydon and Prof. J.D. Barry. (Kelvin Scholarship)
- 2005-2007: MSc Mathematical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (Utrecht Excellence Schorlarship)
- 2002-2005: BSc Mathematics, Information Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Utrecht University College, The Netherlands
Research Interests
- Mathematical Biology, Antigenic Variation in Infectious Diseases
- Evolutionary dynamics at the genomic scale, within-host and population level
Previous Research Projects
- On the mathematical context of subdivision - Honours thesis supervised by Prof. R. Stevenson (Utrecht University)
- A Study of Compartmental Population Epidemic Models with a Nonlinear Background Force of Infection and Virus Dynamics - Advanced Modeling in Science Team Project supervised by Prof. J.Molenaar (Eindhoven University)
- Stochastic modelling of population dynamics: A Markov Approach to the Study of Size-Structured Populations in a Nutrient-limited Environment - Master thesis supervised by Dr. B.W. Kooi (VU, Amsterdam) and Prof. O. Diekmann (Utrecht University)