Ana Osojnik
DPhil candidate at the EPSRC CDT in Industrially Focused Mathematical Modelling (InFoMM)
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis 38(3), 1550-1578 (2017)
2014-16
- Methods & Applications 1 (Tutor and Marker), Department for Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath
- Probability & Statistics 1B (Tutor and Marker), Department for Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath
2017-18
- B6.1 Numerical Solutions to Differential Equations 1 (TA, Michaelmas), Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
- M5 Fourier Series and PDEs (TA, Hillary), Jesus College, University of Oxford
2018-19
- C5.5 Perturbation Methods (TA, Michaelmas), Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Current research:
As part of my DPhil project, I am working in collaboration with AstraZeneca on mathematical modelling of immunotherapy treatments. Immunotherapies are new promising tools, which aim to stimulate the body's own immune system to attack cancer cells. Despite success of such treatments so far, clinical trials still show a large group of patients, who do not respond to immunotherapeutic drugs. In order to increase response rates, a better understanding of the complex interactions between tumour and immune cells is needed. We are looking at bifurcating/bistable ordinary differential equations models of tumour-immune interactions, and feasibilty of integration of such models with data from preclinical trials. This can shed more light into the mechanisms leading to no response to treatment.
Other areas of interest:
- Mathematical modelling in biology and medicine
- Parameter identifiability
- Data assimilation
- Stochastic processes
- Scientific computing
- Machine learning