I am currently Lecturer in Mathematical Biology at the University of Leeds.
My research revolves around structured population models, formulated as delay or partial differential equations, and develops at the interface between different fields: mathematical biology, dynamical systems and numerical analysis.
Recent submissions:
Brooks, J.T., Scarabel, F., Xu, J., Bakker, P., Hall, I., Adamson, J.P., Bailie, R.B., Campbell, R., Dennis, N., Straus, L., Willner, S., Van Der Veen, J., Edge, C., Fowler, T., Pellis, L. Modelling mass asymptomatic testing strategies for early containment of infectious disease outbreaks in prisons. PREPRINT
Recent publications:
Liessi, D., Santi, E., Vermiglio, R., Thakur, M., Meijer, H.G.E., and Scarabel, F. (2026) New functionalities in MatCont: delay equations and Lyapunov exponents, Applied Numerical Mathematics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnum.2026.09.004. Also available on arXiv.
De Reggi, S., Scarabel, F., and Vermiglio, R. (2026) On the convergence of the pseudospectral approximation of reproduction numbers for age-structured models, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 64(4), 1073-1094. https://doi.org/10.1137/24M1687224. Also available on arXiv.
Genuine and spurious bistability in a simple epidemic model with waning immunity: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2026.109671
Francesca Scarabel
f.scarabel (at) leeds.ac.uk
School of Mathematics
University of Leeds
Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT (UK)
Office: 11.02 (School of Mathematics)
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Orcid: 0000-0003-0250-4555
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previous email addresses:
francesca.scarabel (at) manchester.ac.uk
scarabel (at) yorku.ca
francesca.scarabel (at) helsinki.fi