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DrAkindele Onifade

Research Fellow in Epidemiological Model (Ecology and Evolution)

School of Life Sciences

  • Research Fellow in Epidemiological Model (Ecology and Evolution)
    School of Life Sciences

BIO

Akindele Onifade is an applied mathematician whose mathematical and computational biology research focuses on data analysis and mathematical modelling for medical, biological and environmental applications. His expertise ranges from modelling complex dynamical systems to handling and analysing experimental data. He has made scientific contributions to mathematical epidemiology, evoluationary game theory, rule-based epidemic modeling, modeling diffusion, delayed and instantaneous processes and their mathematical analysis while working on a wide range of problems in mathematical biology.
 
In the last few years, He became increasingly interested in integrating statistical, mathematical and computational approaches to solve a wide range of problems in biology, medicine and ecology & evolution. Since 2021, he has been working on mathematical models for multi-drug therapies to treat malaria, designing the best therapeutic strategy to eliminate malaria. Currently, his research lies on the interface of data science, rule-based epidemic modeling, game theory, and computational mathematics. In his research, he interprets research data, develops mathematical systems based on statistical analysis, develops computational techniques and plans numerical simulations to verify hypotheses arising from laboratory experiment.