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.
I am co-organizing the first joint UMI MSE-CliMath workshop: "From Climate Change to Infectious Diseases: Next Generation Mathematical Approaches", in Pavia, 11-13 February 2026.
Recent submissions:
Scarabel, F., Coldwell, H., and Cassidy, T. Genuine and spurious bistability in a simple epidemic model with waning immunity. PREPRINT
Liessi, D., Santi, E., Vermiglio, R., Thakur, M., Meijer, H.G.E., and Scarabel, F., New functionalities in MatCont: delay equations and Lyapunov exponents. PREPRINT
De Reggi, S., Scarabel, F., and Vermiglio, R. On the convergence of the pseudospectral approximation of reproduction numbers for age-structured models. PREPRINT
Recent publications:
Behavior-induced oscillations in epidemic outbreaks with distributed memory: beyond the linear chain trick using numerical methods: https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/mbe.2026004
Bistability and complex bifurcation diagrams generated by waning and boosting of immunity, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-025-02264-3
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