Besides regular research visitors and collaborators, over the past decade or so my research team consisted of 15 PhD Students and 12 MSc Students under my supervision as follows:
Current PhD Students:
- for whom I am Principal/First Supervisor at University of Dundee:
- Ms Arwa Mahdi Rashed (2025-2029), with Professor Ping Lin as Second Supervisor;
- Mr Abdurahman Hakami (2023-2027), with Professor Ping Lin as Second Supervisor;
- Mr. Andrei Ciprian Macarie (2021-2025), joint First Supervisor 50:50% with Professor Douglas Steele from School of Medicine;
- Mr. Zhihao Tao (2020-2025), with Professor Raluca Eftimie (Université Marie & Louis Pasteur, France) as Second Supervisor;
- for whom I am Second Supervisor at University of Dundee:
- Ms. Wei Dou (2024-2028), with Prof. Ping Lin as Principal/First Supervisor;
- for whom I am Co-Director of PhD Thesis at Université Marie & Louis Pasteur (France):
- Mr. Olusegun Ekundayo Adebayo (2022-2025), jointly supervised with Professor Raluca Eftimie as Director of PhD Thesis
Former PhD Students (Already Graduated):
- Graduated PhD Students that I supervised as Principal/First Supervisor:
- Dr Abdulhamed Alsisi – successfully graduated on 24 May 2022 with the PhD Thesis: “Non-Local Multiscale Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Approaches for Tumour-Oncolytic Viruses Interactions” (Joint First Supervisor 50:50% with Professor Raluca Eftimie) [link to PhD Thesis]
- Dr Maher Alwuthaynani – successfully graduated on 23 March 2022 with the PhD Thesis: “Inverse Reconstruction of Cell Proliferation and Mutation Laws in Cancer Invasion Modelling” (with Professor Raluca Eftimie as Second Supervisor) [link to PhD Thesis]
- Dr. Szabolcs Suveges – successfully graduated on 01 December 2021 with the PhD Thesis: “Multiscale modelling of cancer evolution: the role of fibres and macrophages in invasion patterns” (Joint First Supervisor 50:50% with Professor Raluca Eftimie) [link to PhD Thesis]
- Dr. Talal A. M. Alzahrani – successfully graduated in December 2019 with the PhD Thesis: “Multiscale Modelling of Cancer Response to Viral Therapy” (with Professor Ping Lin as Second Supervisor) [link to PhD Thesis]
- Dr. Robyn Shuttleworth – successfully graduated in July 2019 with the PhD Thesis: “Multiscale modelling of cancer invasion: the role of dynamic fibre redistribution and matrix-degrading enzymes in tumour progression” (with Professor Ping Lin as Second Supervisor) [link to PhD Thesis]
- Graduated PhD Students that I supervised as Second Supervisor:
- Dr. Iman Al Kindi – successfully graduated in June 2023 with the PhD Thesis: “Mathematical models for spatial spread of epidemics: the impact of local/non-local interactions” (jointly supervised, with Professor Raluca Eftimie as Principal Supervisor) [link to PhD Thesis]
- Dr. Nada Almuallem – successfully graduated in April 2021 with the PhD Thesis: “Mathematical modelling and investigation of oncolytic therapies for cancer: The role of macrophages in tumour-virus interactions” (jointly supervised, with Professor Raluca Eftimie as Principal Supervisor) [link to PhD Thesis]
- Dr. Raed Qahiti – successfully graduated in January 2021 with the PhD Thesis: “Mathematical modelling and investigation of tumour-immune interactions: the importance of metabolism” (jointly supervised, with Professor Raluca Eftimie as Principal Supervisor) [link to PhD Thesis]
- Dr. Lu Peng – successfully graduated in June 2015 with the PhD Thesis: “Multiscale Mathematical Modelling of Cancer Invasion” (jointly supervised, with Professor Mark A. J. Chaplain as Principal Supervisor) [link to PhD Thesis]
Former MSc Students (Successfully Graduated) Under My Supervision at University of Dundee:
- Mr Gianpaolo Magagnoli – successfully graduated his MSc in Applied Mathematics in September 2024 with the MSc Thesis Research Topic: “Multiscale Modelling and Analysis of Blood Oxygenation Process”– which was awarded the prize of Best MSc Dissertation in Applied Mathematics in University of Dundee in 2024.
- Mr Olawole Oladeji – successfully graduated his MSc in Applied Mathematics in November 2023, with the MSc Dissertation “Periodic Oscillations in age-structured ratio-dependent predator-prey model with Michaelis-Menten type functional response”
- Mr Isuru Kumarasiri – successfully graduated his MSc in Applied Mathematics in September 2023, with the MSc Dissertation “Parameter Recovery in Fisher’s Partial Differential Equation using Tikhonov Regularization: Analysis, Extensions, and Noise Robustness” – which was awarded the prize of Best MSc Dissertation in Applied Mathematics in University of Dundee in 2023.
- Ms. Yong Aishah Meor Amri – successfully graduated her MSc in Applied Mathematics in September 2021, with the MSc Dissertation “Multi-scale and Elementary Modelling of Glioblastoma Heterogeneity in Response to Cancer Therapies”
- Mr. James Lesh – successfully graduated his MSc in Applied Mathematics in September 2021, with the MSc Dissertation “Multiscale Modelling of tumour-virous and immune system interactions”.
- Mr. Emil Imrith – successfully graduated his MSc in Applied Mathematics in September 2021, with the MSc Dissertation “Geo Navigable Polypedal Robotic Platform (GeoNPRP) Mathematical Modelling”.
- Mr. Andrei Macarie – successfully graduated his MSc in Applied Mathematics in September 2020, with the MSc Dissertation “Multi-Scale Modelling of Chemo-Viro-Therapy Cancer Treatment” – which was awarded the prize of Best MSc Dissertation in Applied Mathematics in University of Dundee in 2020.
- Ms. Aisha Tursynkozha – successfully graduated her MSc in Applied Mathematics in September 2020, with the MSc Dissertation “A New Approach to Modelling Cell-Cycle Dynamics and DNA damage During Aberrant Mitosis”.
- Mr. Yerzhan Tashkenbayev – successfully graduated his MSc in Mathematics for the Financial Sector in September 2020, with the MSc Dissertation: “Black – Scholes Model and Volatility Estimation”.
- Ms. Serife Erkivanc – successfully graduated her MSc in Applied Mathematics in September 2020, with the MSc Dissertation: “Two-Scale Convergence in Homogenisation Processes”.
- Ms. Marian Kusi-Appiah – successfully graduated her MSc in Mathematics for the Financial Sector in September 2018, with the MSc Dissertation: “Inverse Problems for Market Volatility”.
- Dr. Arran Hodgkinson – successfully graduated his MSc in Mathematical Biology in September 2016, with the MSc Dissertation: “Computational Approaches and Analysis for Spatio-Structuro-Temporal Invasive Carcinoma Models”.
Current and Recent Research Visitors:
- 01 January – 31 December 2025, Ms Hui Yu, 3rd-year PhD Student in Mathematics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, whose visit is fully funded through a prestigious 1-year China Scholarship Council Fellowship (competitively awarded).
- 05-08 October 2024, Dr Axel Hutt, Directeur de Recherche, INRIA, Nancy Grand – Est: Strasbourg, France.
- 18-25 February 2023, Professor Florin Adrian Radu, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway.
