Research at FAST

96 Department of Applied Mathematics Department of Applied Mathematics Qualification MSc (ZJNU) PhD (MUN) Postdoc (YorkU) ORCID ID 0000-0003-3864-2001 Dr LOU Yijun Associate Professor Research Overview • Applied Dynamical Systems • Differential Equations • Mathematical Epidemiology and Mathematical Biology • Transmission Dynamics in Complex Networks My research mainly focuses on two aspects: (1) developing mathematical tools to analyze biological or epidemiological systems and (2) formulating models to investigate ecological problems and disease transmission. In particular, with collaborators, we have proposed general modeling and analytical frameworks to describe the population growth with variable development duration driven due to abiotic factors, such as temperature variation. In particular, we studied two scenarios when the development duration is seasonal and continuous, or when the development is postponed due to harsh environmental conditions. With regard to the application side, we have studied the transmission dynamics of some emerging infectious diseases. For example, we have evaluated the contribution of sexual transmission on Zika incidence and estimated the basic reproduction number for the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with the preliminary data. Representative Publications • Int. J. Infect. Dis., 92( 2020 ), 214-217 • J. Math. Biol., 78( 2019 ), 2259-2288 • Chaos, 27( 2017 ), 063101 • J. Nonl. Sci., 27( 2017 ), 573-603 • J. Diff. Equ., 263( 2017 ), 2078-2112 • Inf. Dis. Model., 2( 2017 ), 229-243 • SIAM J. Appl. Math., 76( 2016 ), 1633-1657 • Sci. Rep., 6( 2016 ), 28070