Publications

ORCID, Google Scholar

Peer Reviewed

• J Heidecke, J Fuhrmann and MV Barbarossa, A mathematical model to assess the effectiveness of test-trace-isolate-and-quarantine under limited capacities, PLOS One (2024)  

• K Sherratt et al, Predictive performance of multi-model ensemble forecasts of COVID-19 across European nations, Elife 12 (2023) 

• J Bracher, D Wolffram, J Deuschel, K Görgen, JL Ketterer,  A Ullrich,  S Abbott,  MV Barbarossa, et al., National and subnational short-term forecasting of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland, early 2021, Commun Med, (Sept 2022) 

• A Coulibaly, SY Velasquez, N Kasser, MV Barbarossa and HA Lindner, STAT3 governs the HIF-1α response in IL-15 primed human NK cells, Scientific Reports 11: 7023 (2021)

• J Bracher, D Wolffram, J Deuschel, K Görgen, JL Ketterer,  A Ullrich,  S Abbott,  MV Barbarossa, et al., A pre-registered short-term forecasting study of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland during the second wave, Nature Communications 12:5173 (2021)

• MV Barbarossa, N Bogya, A Dénes, G Röst, H Vinod Varma, Zs Vizi, Fleeing lockdown and its impact on the size of epidemic outbreaks in the source and target regions - a COVID-19 lesson, Scientific Reports 11:9233 (2020)

• J Heidecke and MV Barbarossa, When ideas go viral-complex bifurcations in a two-stage transmission model, BIOMAT 2020: Trends in Biomathematics: Chaos and Control in Epidemics, Ecosystems and Cells (2021) preprint on ArXiv

• MV Barbarossa and J Fuhrmann, Germany's next shutdown - possible scenarios and outcomes, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (2020) DOI: 10.1111/irv.12827 

• MV Barbarossa, J Fuhrmann, J Heidecke, HV Varma, N Castelletti, J Meinke, S Krieg and Th Lippert, A first study on the impact of current and future control measures on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany, medRxiv (2020)

• MV Barbarossa, J Fuhrmann,  J Meinke, S Krieg, H Vinod Varma, N Castelletti, and Th Lippert, Modeling the spread of COVID-19 in Germany: Early assessment and possible scenarios , PLOS ONE, 15(9): e0238559 (2020) 

• J Fuhrmann, MV Barbarossa, The Significance of the Detection Ratio for Predictions on the Outcome of an Epidemic - A Message from Mathematical Modelers, Archives of Public Health 78, nr 63 (2020) 

• N Castelletti and MV Barbarossa, Deterministic approaches for head lice infestations and treatments, Infec Diseases Modeling 5, 386 - 404 (2020)

• A Coulibaly, A Bettendorf, E Kostina, AS Figueiredo, SY Velasquez, HG Bock, M Thiel, HA Lindner and MV Barbarossa , Interleukin-15 signaling in HIF-1alpha regulation in natural killer cells, insights through mathematical models, in press, Frontiers in Immunology (2019) 

• MV Barbarossa, M Polner and G Röst, Temporal evolution of immunity distributions in a population with waning and boosting, Complexity, Vol. 2018 ID 9264743 (2018) (open access pdf)

• MV Barbarossa, M Polner and G Röst, Stability switches induced by immune system boosting in an SIRS model with discrete and distributed delays, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics 77(3), pp. 903 -925 (2017) preprint

• MV Barbarossa and C Kuttler, Mathematical modeling of bacteria communication in continuous cultures (2016), MDPI Appl. Sciences Special Issue on Dynamical Models of Biology and Medicine, 6(5):149 (2016) (open access pdf)

• MV Barbarossa and HO Walther, Linearized stability for a new class of neutral equations with state-dependent delay, Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems 24(1), pp. 63 - 79 (2016) preprint

• MV Barbarossa, A Denes, G Kiss, Y Nakata, G Röst, Zs Vizi, Transmission dynamics and final epidemic size of Ebola Virus Disease outbreaks with varying interventions, Plos One, July 2015, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131398 (open access pdf)

• MV Barbarossa, G Röst, Immuno-epidemiology of a population structured by immune status: a mathematical study of waning immunity and immune system boosting, Journal of Mathematical Biology, 71(6), pp 1737-1770 (2015) preprint

• MV Barbarossa, G Röst, Mathematical models for vaccination, waning immunity and immune system boosting: a general framework, BIOMAT 2014, World Scientific (2015), DOI: 10.1142/9789814667944_0012 preprint

• K Buddrus-Schiemann, M Rieger, MV Barbarossa et al.,  Analysis of N-acylhomoserine lactone-dynamics in continuous cultures of Pseudomonas putida IsoF using ELISA and UHPLC/qTOF-MS-derived measurements and mathematical models, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry  406(25), pp. 6373 - 6383 (2014) 

• MV Barbarossa, KP Hadeler and C Kuttler, State-dependent neutral delay equations from population dynamics, Journal of Mathematical Biology 69(4), pp. 1027-1056 (2014) preprint

• M Mohr, MV Barbarossa and C Kuttler, Predator-prey interactions, age structures and delay equations, Mathematical Models of Natural Phenomena 9(1), pp. 92-107  (2014) preprint

• MV Barbarossa, C Kuttler and J Zinsl, Delay equations modeling the effects of phase-specific drugs and immunotherapy on proliferating tumor cells, Mathematical Bioscience and Engineering 9(2), pp. 241-257 (2012) (pdf)

• MV Barbarossa, C Kuttler, A Fekete and M Rothballer, Delay models for Quorum sensing of Pseudomonas putida, Biosystems 102, pp. 148-156 (2010) (pdf)

Theses

Ph.D. Thesis On a class of neutral equations with state-dependent delay in population dynamics (2013) (pdf)

MSc. Thesis Delay models for Quorum sensing of Pseudomonas putida (2008)

BSc. Thesis Codes from projective subsystems of the Klein quadric of PG(5,q) (2006)