Erida Gjini
                      
                        Institutional Address
                       
                      Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
                         
                        Av. Rovisco Pais 1
 1049-001 LISBOA
                       
                      
                         
                        
                       
                      
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                        Email: erida.gjini@tecnico.ulisboa.pt | Web: biomathematica.wordpress.com 
                      
                        Position
                       
                      Principal Investigator in Mathematical biology, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon 
                      
                        Area
                       
                      Mathematical Modeling in Biomedicine 
                      
                        
                         
                          Principal Area
                         
                        Infectious disease models, mathematical epidemiology, stochastic processes 
                        
                        
                        
                        
                          Other Area
                         
                        Evolution, interaction networks, biodiversity, complexity 
                        
                        
                          Qualifications and previous positions 
 
    - Visiting researcher at LE STUDIUM, Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies (2021)
 
    - Principal Investigator (2015-2020) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, PT: Mathematical Modeling of Biological Processes Group
 
    - Post-doctoral researcher (2012-2015) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, PT: Collective Dynamics Group
 
    - PhD in Mathematics (2012), University of Glasgow, UK
 
    - MSc in Mathematical Sciences (2007), Utrecht University, NL
 
    - Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts, Major: Maths (2005), Utrecht University College, NL
 
 
                         
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                    Other selected publications:  
Gjini E. (2017) Geographic variation in pneumococcal vaccine efficacy estimated from dynamic modeling of epidemiological data post-PCV7 Nature Scientific Reports 7: 3049  | DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-02955-y  
Gjini E. and Madec S. (2016) A slow-fast dynamic  decomposition links neutral and non-neutral coexistence in interacting  multi-strain pathogens.Theoretical Ecology  pp:1-13, doi:10.1007/s12080-016-0320-1 
Gjini E. and Brito P.H. (2016) Integrating  Antimicrobial Therapy with Host Immunity to Fight Drug-Resistant  Infections: Classical vs. Adaptive treatment. PLoS Computational Biology 12(4), e1004857. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004857     
Gjini E., Valente C., Sa-Leao R., Gomes, M.G.M.  (2016) How direct competition shapes coexistence and vaccine effects  in multi-strain pathogen systems. Journal of Theoretical Biology  388:50-60, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.09.031 
Gjini, E., Haydon, D.T., Barry, J.D. and Cobbold, C.A.  (2014) Revisiting the difffusion approximation to estimate evolutionary  rates of gene family diversification. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 341:111-22. 
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