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Dr Roslyn Hickson

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Position Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Office V26, Mathematics Building (v)

Biography

My PhD on the topic was critical times of heat and mass transport through multiple layers. From the week after I submitted my PhD until late 2011 I was employed as a Research Fellow in infectious disease modelling, at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU. I received a Lift-off Fellowship from the Australian Mathematics Society to attend a 2 week masters level course at the University of Utrecht on the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. December 2011 I started a 4 year University of Newcastle Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

Service

  • Webmaster of ANZIAM
  • Webmaster for the Mathematical Biology special interest group of ANZIAM

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Mathematics Society
  • ANZIAM
  • Society for Mathematical Biology
  • Public Health Association of Australia

Qualifications

  • PhD (Physics), University of New South Wales, 2010
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Elect Eng)(Hons), University of New South Wales, 2006

Research

Research keywords

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Industrial applied mathematics
  • Infectious Disease Modelling

Research expertise

I am an applied mathematician with particular expertise in modelling and industrial applications. I have wide ranging interests from diffusion and heat transfer to infectious disease modelling.

My reserach interests inlude:

  • Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases
  • Tuberculosis spread including the effects of HIV and multi-drug resistance
  • The effect of increasing diabetes prevalence on TB
  • Dengue fever: impacts of vector control, climate change effects on the spread, transmission through blood transfusion
  • Spatially dependent disease spread models
  • Critical times of heat and mass transfer

Collaboration

I have strong research links with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at ANU.

Languages

  • English

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
010200 Applied Mathematics 100

Centres and Groups

Centre

Teaching

Teaching keywords

  • Applied Mathematics

Teaching expertise

  • Foundational Studies in Mathematics
  • Mathematical modelling

  • Developing an honours level course for the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases