University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
Quantitative epidemiological and economic approaches to understand disease in livestock and wildlife populations to inform decisions in livestock production, human health and animal welfare.
- School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
I am a mathematician interested in the quantification of diversity. My background is in category theory, an abstract branch of mathematics whose main application to date has been to computer science; but there also turn out to be surprising applications to theoretical ecology. I have been using ideas from category theory to develop a new system for measuring biological diversity.
Identifying and dissecting host-parasite interactions that contribute to disease severity, with a particular focus on African trypanosomes.