Sean Vittadello

I joined the Theoretical Systems Biology Group at The University of Melbourne as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Professor Michael Stumpf in April 2020. My research interests involve studying complex biological systems through mathematics, with two general themes. The first theme is within algebraic biology, where I apply algebraic methods to study biological systems, such as in the comparison of mathematical models with the aim of discovering design principles for synthetic biology. The second theme involves the application of methods from mathematical analysis, such as in the application of differential equations to study cell behaviour, including cell migration, cell proliferation, the cell cycle, and cell differentiation. Much of my current work integrates these two mathematical themes,with a rigorous approach from the perspective of pure mathematics.

I received a Ph.D. in mathematical biology from Queensland University of Technology in 2020, for which I developed and analysed mathematical models of cell migration and proliferation based on experimental data employing fluorescent cell cycle indicators. I received a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from The University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2008, for which I developed a representation theory of numerical semigroups by isometries on Hilbert space, and also investigated the ideal structure of a class of crossed product C*-algebras.

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