Erida Gjini is Principal Researcher in Mathematical Biology at the Department of Mathematics, Instituto Superior Tecnico at University of Lisbon. She works in mathematical epidemiology, antibiotic resistance modelling and nonlinear dynamics in ecology, microbiology and biomedicine. Her team investigates the different forces shaping diversity in pathogen populations: including natural polymorphisms, immune-mediated interactions, co-infection, host population diversity, spatial gradients, vaccines and antibiotics.

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During 2015-2020 Erida Gjini was group leader of the research group in Mathematical Modelling of Biological Processes at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science in Portugal (IGC), where she earlier did a post-doc in mathematical epidemiology at the Collective Dynamics Group (IGC, 2012-2015). She obtained her PhD in Mathematics in Scotland, UK, at the University of Glasgow (2007-2012). She has a Master degree in Mathematical Sciences from Utrecht University (2005-2007) and a Bachelor of Science from Utrecht University College (Liberal Arts) in the Netherlands. Her aim as a researcher is by using mathematics to understand deeply the mechanisms, principles and evolution of biodiversity and biocomplexity in a range of living systems.