Professor Gabriela Gomes

Mathematics and Statistics

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Gabriela Gomes is an applied mathematician specialised in population dynamics. She obtained her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Warwick and, subsequently, switched to biology with a Wellcome Research Training Fellowship in Mathematical Biology. She established an independent research group at the Gulbenkian Science Institute, initially supported by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant, with projects ranging from fundamental mathematical concepts to management of population and ecosystem health, public engagement in science and development of research infrastructures. She subsequently led research programmes at the University of Porto, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and is now a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde. She held visiting positions in the USA and Brazil and is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

Gabriela is broadly interested in how variation among individuals affects the dynamics of populations, whether this concerns demography, epidemiology, ecology or evolutionary biology. In collaboration with experimental and observational scientists, she studies microbial population dynamics and the spread of infectious diseases. She is also involved in research devoted to optimising study designs and policy decisions.

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Publications

Remodelling selection to optimise disease forecasts and policies
Gomes M Gabriela M, Blagborough Andrew M, Langwig Kate E, Ringwald Beate
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Vol 57 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad280d
Herd immunity under individual variation and reinfection
Montalbán Antonio, Corder Rodrigo M, Gomes M Gabriela M
Journal of Mathematical Biology Vol 85 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-022-01771-x
Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold
Gomes M Gabriela M, Ferreira Marcelo U, Corder Rodrigo M, King Jessica G, Souto-Maior Caetano, Penha-Gonçalves Carlos, Gonçalves Guilherme, Chikina Maria, Pegden Wesley, Aguas Ricardo
Journal of Theoretical Biology Vol 540 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111063
Timeliness and obsolescence of herd immunity threshold estimates in the COVID-19 pandemic
Gomes M Gabriela M
Public Health (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.09.036
Modelling the epidemiology of residual Plasmodium vivax malaria in a heterogeneous host population : a case study in the Amazon Basin
Corder Rodrigo M, Ferreira Marcelo U, Gomes M Gabriela M
PLoS Computational Biology Vol 16 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007377
The effects of individual nonheritable variation on fitness estimation and coexistence
Gomes M Gabriela M, King Jessica G, Nunes Ana, Colegrave Nick, Hoffmann Ary A
Ecology and Evolution Vol 9, pp. 8995-9004 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5437

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Professor Gabriela Gomes
Mathematics and Statistics

Email: gabriela.gomes@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3804