Biography Anotida Madzvamuse
Anotida Madzvamuse (AM) is an African-British-Canadian Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia (Canada) and holds a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Theoretical and Computational Biology, since October 2022. For more than 16 years, AM held positions of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). AM graduated with a DPhil in Mathematics from the University of Oxford (UK) in 2000, under the supervision of Professors Andrew J. Wathen and Philip K. Maini. AM is a former holder of a 5-year Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (UK, 2016-2021), and a Theodore von Kaman Fellowship awarded by RWTH University of Aachen (Germany, 2013).
AM undertakes theoretical, computational and translational research at the interface between Mathematical Sciences and its Applications to Life and Medical Sciences. His work has been supported by external grants from Canada, EU Horizon2020, France, USA, UK, South Africa, totalling over 5 million euros. He has co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles, graduated 16 PhD students, and supervised over a dozen postdoctoral researchers. AM serves as a Board Member on the INI Scientific Advisory Panel, BIRS Scientific Advisory Committee, BIRS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board, and the London Mathematical Society (MARM).