Biography
Dr Thompson delivers first and second year tutorials at St Hilda's in a range of applied mathematics courses. These include first-year tutorials in Calculus, Fourier Series & PDEs and Probability, and second-year tutorials in Differential Equations I, Differential Equations II, Mathematical Modelling in Biology and Calculus of Variations. In addition to his college teaching, Dr Thompson lectures undergraduate and graduate applied mathematics courses in the Mathematical Institute. He also supervises DPhil students and postdoctoral researchers.
Dr Thompson leads the Infectious Disease Modelling research group in the Mathematical Institute. The group’s main goal is to use mathematics to guide disease surveillance and control measures. Group members develop novel models and modelling techniques, and analyse outbreak data. They use stochastic and deterministic modelling approaches, and parameterise the models using statistical inference techniques such as Markov chain Monte Carlo and Approximate Bayesian Computation. In addition to working with other mathematicians, Dr Thompson works with public health policy experts to maximise the positive socio-economic impacts of his group’s research.
For a full list of Dr Thompson’s research publications, please visit the Infectious Disease Modelling group website.
Positions
- Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics
- Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute
Subjects
- Mathematics
