Activities 2026

Meetings

Research Grants

• Research topic: Graph theory to model the dissemination of infectious diseases (1/2026/BII/ BIOMATH )

Selected candidate: ANDREIA FILIPA MACHADO SILVA

Advisors: Professor Sofia Pinheiro (DMat & CIDMA), Professor Paula Rama (DMat & CIDMA), Professor Ana Helena Tavares (ESTGA & CIDMA), Professor Vera Afreixo (DMat & CIDMA), Professor Ana Pedro Paião (ESTGA & CIDMA), Professor Cristiana Silva (Iscte-IUL & CIDMA), Professor Miguel Felgueiras (ESTG-Instituto Politécnico de Leiria) and Dr. Rui Pedro Leitão (ULS Região de Aveiro)

Funding: The Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications of University of Aveiro, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), ref. UID/04106/2025 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/04106/2025)

• Research topic: Develop and analyse compartmental mathematical models of the transmission of infectious diseases (5/2026/BII/ BIOMATH )

Selected candidate: RUTE MOTA VERÍSSIMO

Advisors: Professor Cristiana Silva (Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa & CIDMA), Professor Sofia Pinheiro (DMat & CIDMA), Professor Miguel Felgueiras (ESTG-Instituto Politécnico de Leiria), Dr. Rui Pedro Leitão (ULS Região de Aveiro) and Professor Vera Afreixo (DMat & CIDMA)

Funding: The Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications of University of Aveiro, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), ref. UID/04106/2025 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/04106/2025)

• Research topic: Time series models for infectious disease forecasting and healthcare demand prediction  (6/2026/BII/ BIOMATH )

Selected candidate: to be sellected

Advisors: Professor Doctor Miguel Martins Felgueiras (IPLeiria & CIDMA), Dr. Rui Pedro Leitão (ULS Região de Aveiro) and Professor Doctor Vera Mónica Almeida Afreixo (DMat & CIDMA)

Funding: The Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications of University of Aveiro, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), ref. UID/04106/2025 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/04106/2025)

• Research topic: Probabilistic cellular automata (PrCA)-based epidemiological model (7/2026/BII/ BIOMATH )

Selected candidate: to be sellected

Advisors: Professor Doctor Nelson José Rodrigues Faustino (DMat & CIDMA), Dr. Pedro Damião dos Santos Rebelo (ULS Região de Aveiro) and Professor Doctor Vera Mónica Almeida Afreixo (DMat & CIDMA) 

Funding: The Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications of University of Aveiro, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), ref. UID/04106/2025 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/04106/2025)

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