Professional activities

Awards and prizes

2022 Weldon Memorial Prize.

• Awarded to the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, Operational sub-group (SPI-M-O) for the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The Weldon Memorial Prizes recognises noteworthy contributions to the development of mathematical or statistical methods applied to problems in Biology.
• The award recognises the epidemiological modelling conducted by SPI-M-O that supported the UK’s policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2022 SPI-M-O Award for Modelling and Data Support.

• Recognition of those who made an exceptional contribution, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to the work of SPI-M-O outside of their usual work activity.

2022 RAMP (Rapid Assistance for Modelling the Pandemic) Outreach Innovation Award.

• Lead applicant, with Laura Guzman-Rincon as co-applicant.
• Awarded to form the SBIDER Podcast Hub.
• Produce two podcast series: (i) SBIDER presents - sharing research findings from SBIDER with the public; (ii) SBIDER Careers Podcast - a career-orientated series to give insights into the day-to-day activities of researchers working in mathematical epidemiology and infectious disease modelling.

2022 RAMP Continuity funding: Early Career Researcher Knowledge Exchange Project Award (1000 GBP).

• Facilitation and organisation of a virtual workshop event on Behaviour and Policy During Pandemics: Models and Methods
• Hosted by the Newton Gateway to Mathematics, the impact initiative of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

2021 RAMP Early Career Investigator Award from the Royal Society.

• Recognition of early career researchers who have made exceptional contributions towards RAMP’s activities.

2021 RAMP Continuity funding: Early Career Researcher Knowledge Exchange Project Award (2500 GBP).

• Facilitation and organisation of a virtual workshop series on Modelling Behaviour to Inform Policy for Pandemics
• Hosted by the Newton Gateway to Mathematics, the impact initiative of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

2018 Awarded a bursary (300 GBP) from the University of Warwick Public Engagement Fund.

• Co-applicant as part of the DataBeers Warwick organising team.
• Support the running of a DataBeers Warwick event.

2018 Recipient of an ESMTB travel grant (300 euros).

• Support attendance at ECMTB 2018: 11th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology.

2012 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

• Full funding for MSc and PhD studies.

Editor and reviewer roles

I am an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

I was a guest editor of a Pandemics Special Issue of Mathematics Today, the magazine of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The Special Issue was published in October 2022, with the Editorial available to view online here.

For an overview of my reviewing history, please visit my Peer Review record on Web of Science and ORCID.

Teaching

I have performed the following duties at the University of Warwick:

2023- Sole lecturer for MA4E7 Population Dynamics: Ecology & Epidemiology.

2022- Module co-organiser for MA4K8 MA4K9 Projects.

2017-2021 Lecturer/workshop assistant for Mathematical Modelling, delivered to postgraduate students in the Midland Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) doctoral training programme.

2015-2016 Teaching Assistant for MA4E7 Population Dynamics: Ecology and Epidemiology.

2011-2014 Supervisor for 1st year undergraduate Mathematics students.

Reading group

During my PhD I organised an epidemiology reading group within the Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick. Archive of discussed papers

Professional and academic affiliations

2018 - present: Member of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB).
2016 - present: Member of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB).

Conference session chair

SMB 2021 - Mathematical Epidemiology CT09
SMB 2020 - Mathematical Epidemiology COVID-19 Contributed Talks III
CCS 2019 - Diseases & Epidemics 1
SMB 2018 - Epidemiology: Part A