Dr Oliver Eales is a McKenzie Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Infectious Disease Dynamics Unit in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. His research focuses on the mathematical modelling of infectious disease dynamics and the design and use of pathogen surveillance systems for understanding disease transmission.

Dr Alexander Browning is a Lecturer in Mathematical Biology in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Melbourne. Alex Browning is a mathematical biologist, with research areas that span identifiability and inference, models for cancer progression and treatment, and the role of heterogeneity in systems subject to environmental noise. Prior to joining […]

Dr Imke Botha is a Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Her background is in computational Bayesian statistics, and she is currently working on modelling and predicting the spread of antimalarial drug resistance in Asia. Her other research interests include sequential Monte Carlo, pseudo-marginal and particle methods, […]

Dr Ryan J. Murphy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Melbourne. Ryan is currently working with Dr Stuart Johnston, Dr Matt Faria, and Associate Professor James Osborne to explore nanoparticle-cell interactions and bridge the gap between simple routine biological experiments and complicated organoid experiments. Ryan […]

Jiahao is a Research Fellow in Infectious disease dynamics at the school of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. His current work is focus on developing mathematical and computational models of infectious diseases that link immunological and epidemiological scales of infection and transmission. Email: jiahao.diao@unimelb.edu.au.

Dr Md Nurul Anwar is a research fellow in malaria modelling in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. He is a former PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Jennifer Flegg, Prof. James McCaw, A/Prof. Roslyn Hickson and A/Prof. Jack Richards. His PhD work focussed on malaria modelling, specially Plasmodium Vivax dynamics. Email: nurul.anwar@unimelb.edu.au

Thomas Williams is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS). Thomas completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2024, under the supervision of A/Prof James Osborne and Prof James McCaw. His research made use of agent-based modelling to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of […]

Dr Christopher Baker is a Research Fellow who has joint position between the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Centre of Biosecurity Risk Analysis in the School of BioSciences. Their research focusses on using mathematics to inform policy in biosecurity, ecology and epidemiology. Since joining The University of Melbourne in 2020, they have worked […]

Dr. Douglas Brumley is an Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics and leads an interdisciplinary research group at the interface of mathematics, biophysics and microbial ecology. The Brumley lab utilises mathematics, microfluidics and microscopy to study a range of dynamic processes in biology including bacterial motility, symbioses, nutrient cycling and flows around coral reefs. Email: d.brumley@unimelb.edu.au

Professor James McCaw is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in Mathematical Biology in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. His interests span from modelling host-pathogen-drug dynamics, with a focus on influenza and malaria, to developing public health control strategies for […]

James is an Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. His work is at the interface between applied mathematics, scientific computing and biology: he uses mathematical and scientific computing techniques to develop reliable, robust and efficient simulations of multiscale biological and physiological phenomena. James has […]

Jennifer is a Professor in applied mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on using mathematics and statistics to answer questions in biology and medicine. In particular, she develops mathematical models in areas such as wound healing, tumour growth and infectious disease epidemiology. Webpage: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/jennifer-flegg/ Email: […]

Dr. Michael Pan is a Research Fellow at the Systems Biology Laboratory. His work makes use of energy-based approaches to develop mathematical models for a diverse range of applications in systems and synthetic biology. Current research interests include constructing large-scale dynamic models of biochemical pathways, understanding the relationship between energy and function in heart cells, […]

Professor Michael Stumpf holds the Chair in Theoretical Systems Biology in the School of BioSciences and in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Michael’s work deals with the development of mathematical and statistical methods to infer the structure of mathematical models from data. His biological interest concerns cellular decision making processes, e.g. how does a […]

Pengxing Cao is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne. He obtained his PhD in mathematics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2014. His PhD thesis looked at mathematical modelling of calcium oscillations in airway smooth muscle cells. Then he moved to Melbourne to work […]

Dr Stuart Johnston is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Melbourne. His research interests include multiscale modelling, collective behaviour, and computational statistical inference. He applies these techniques to applications that include whale migration, nanobiotechnology, and cancer growth, with a particular focus on studying the […]

Rodney is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne’s School of Mathematics and Statistics working under the supervision of Dr. Douglas Brumley. His research centres around using analytical and numerical methods to model microbial motility, chemotaxis, symbiosis, and porous-type flows.

Ruarai is a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Dr Freya Shearer and Prof James McCaw. They are interested in understanding the effect of immunity on the population-scale dynamics of respiratory infectious diseases. Their previous work includes the development of methodologies for forecasting […]

Xinyi Yang is a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Dr. Douglas Brumley. Her research focuses on modelling the navigation and collective motion of microswimmers under the influence of fluid flows, external fields, and confinement.

Elizabeth is a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics under the supervision of Prof Jennifer Flegg, Dr Camelia Walker, Dr Angela Devine and Dr Rebecca Chisholm. Her work is centred on modelling malaria transmission and treatment at the population level, particularly with regards to the parasite plasmodium vivax and multi-species models with plasmodium falciparum.   […]

Kartik is an MPhil student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, pursuing research under the supervision of Prof. James McCaw and Prof. Jennifer Flegg. His research involves working with Bayesian Hierarchical models for stochastic epidemics.

Xiao Sun is a PhD student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Prof. James McCaw and Dr Pengxing Cao. His current work is on the stochastic modelling of within-host dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum to study extinction probability and transmission.

Isobel is a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Dr Christopher Baker, Prof James McCaw, Prof Jennifer Flegg and Dr Thao Le. Her work focuses on using infectious disease modelling in a decision-making context.

Yang is a PhD student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, working under the supervision of Dr Freya Shearer, Dr David Price and Prof James McCaw. His research focuses on exploring the feasibility of epidemic control within a stochastic model framework by accounting for resource constraints, delays in the […]

Maame Akua Korsah is a Phd Student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne working under the supervision of Prof. Jennifer Flegg, Dr. Stuart Johnston and Dr. James Walker (and also Dr. Kathryn Tiedje from MDHS). Akua’s work focuses on developing mathematical models to understand the transmission dynamics of Malaria. […]

Antony is a Joint Ph.D. student between the University of Melbourne (School of Mathematics and Statistics) and the University of Manchester (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), working under the supervision of Dr. Douglas Brumley, Prof. Linda Blackall, Prof. Peter Duck and Dr. Draga Pihler-Puzovic. His current work is on the Microscale fluid dynamics around coral […]

Dr Alexander Zarebski was a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include the application and development of quantitative methods to questions in infectious disease epidemiology. In particular, he focuses on the joint analysis of genomic and time series data. His work involves […]

Lucinda was a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Prof Jennifer Flegg, Dr Freya Shearer and Dr David Price. Her work explored methods of spatial disease modelling and optimised sampling site selection, primarily applied to the zoonotic malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi.

Gopikrishnan was a PhD student in the joint research school IITB-Monash Research Academy under the supervision of Prof Jerome Droniou (Monash University), Prof Jennifer Flegg (The University of Melbourne), and Prof Neela Nataraj (IIT Bombay). Gopikrishnan focused on a range of topics in applied mathematics such as mathematical modelling, scientific computing, and numerical analysis. In […]

Adriana was a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of A/Prof James Osborne and Prof Jennifer Flegg. Her work focused on cell-based computational models of wound healing. Her work was particularly interested in how heterogeneities at a cell-scale change behaviour at a tissue scale. […]

Domenic was a PhD student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, working under the supervision of A/Prof James Osborne, Dr Stuart Johnston and Prof Edmund Crampin. His work was on the development of a cell-based, deformable model of tissues, to understand the mechanics of the colonic crypt epithelium. Domenic […]

Dominic Maderazo was a PhD student under the supervision of Jennifer Flegg at the University of Melbourne and Jonathan Keith at Monash University. His previous work included multi-scale modelling of immune systems to investigate the effects of physiological changes may have on the effectiveness of the immune response. Dominic was working on statistical methods for […]

Jessica was a PhD student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, working with A/Prof James Osborne and Prof Jennifer Flegg. During her PhD, Jessica developed a coupled fluid-structure-growth model of vascular regression to study the role of the local blood flow on cellular migration and capillary wall mechanics during […]

Ke Li was a PhD student at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, working with the Prof James McCaw and Dr Pengxing Cao. His work was on the development of within-host dynamical models to understand essential interactions between influenza virus and immune responses. Ke is currently a postdoctoral fellow at […]

Mahdieh was a past student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of A/Prof James Osborne and Prof Jennifer Flegg. Her research focused on using cell-based mathematical modelling to understand the mechanics of the colonic crypt.

Punya was a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Prof. James McCaw and Prof. Peter Taylor. Her research focused on using mathematics and statistics to understand the extinction of infectious diseases. Punya is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South […]

Phillip Brown was a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, supervised by Dr Ed Green, A/Prof Ben Binder (both UofA) and A/Prof James Osborne. His work focused on cell-based modelling of buckling epithelial tissues, with particular application to the colonic crypt. He was working on a new modelling approach that has a wide range […]

Sarah Belet was a MPhil student in the School of Mathematics, Monash University, and was supervised by A/Prof Jonathan Keith and Prof Jennifer Flegg. Her research looked at the spread of the bacteria Wolbachia within mosquito population as a means to suppress the spread of dengue fever.

Barry was a professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, after retiring in 2021. He has broad interests in applied mathematics and mathematical biology. Webpage: https://researchers.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~barrydh@unimelb/

Professor Edmund Crampin joined the University in 2013, moving from New Zealand, as the Rowden White Chair of Systems Biology, a joint appointment between the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the School of Biomedical Engineering. He quickly become a beloved and respected member of the University community. His educational background was in physics and mathematics, […]

Dr. Camelia Walker was a Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. In 2020, they completed a PhD at the University of Adelaide which developed Bayesian inference and model selection methods for emerging infectious diseases. Subsequently, they joined the Australian COVID-19 modelling efforts where their research informed the […]

Dr Jared M. Field was a McKenzie Fellow broadly interested in the intersection of mathematics, ecology and evolutionary biology. His work centred on human life-history theory, Bayesian modelling of behaviour, and Indigenous Australian marriage rules and genetics.