Dr. P. van den Driessche

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Pauline van den Driessche, Ph.D. (Wales), Professor Emeritus
Adjunct Professor

Research interests:
Aspects of stability in biomathematical models and matrix analysis. Mathematical biology, especially models in epidemiology and ecology. Matrix analysis, especially stability and combinatorial matrix analysis.

Recent and current research projects include:

• disease transmission models
• global stability of dynamical systems
• backward bifurcation
• stability properties of sign pattern matrices
• nonnegative matrices
• Hopf bifurcation
• combinatorial matrix analysis
• network models

Current graduate students:

• Manting Wang, PhD student, Math/Stat
• Tanya Philippsen, PhD student, IDS

Publications

• 2007: Krieger-Nelson prize from Canadian Mathematical Society
• 2007: First Olga Taussky Todd lecture at ICIAM, Zurich
• 2013: SIAM Fellow
• 2013: David H. Turpin Gold Medal, U. Victoria
• 2014: Thompson Reuter's Highly Cited Researcher
• 2019: Honorary Doctorate, Thompson Rivers U.
• 2020: Honorary Doctorate, U. Victoria
• 2022: Hans Schneider Prize, ILAS

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