Biography

MGM Gomes graduated in Applied Mathematics from the University of Porto in 1987, and completed her MSc and PhD in Mathematics from the University of Warwick in 1990 and 1993, respectively. In 1999, she was awarded a Wellcome Research Training Fellowship in Mathematical Biology. In 2002, established her independent group at IGC, initially supported by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant, with a spectrum of projects ranging from fundamental mathematical concepts to management of population and ecosystem health, public engagement in science and development of research infrastructures. In 2015, she moved to a joint appointment between the University of Porto and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and, in 2020, became a Professor at the University of Strathclyde. She has published almost 100 peer-reviewed research papers in international journals, initially in Mathematics and Physics and more recently in Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology, and supervised 6 PhD students and numerous postdocs.

Gomes held visiting positions at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, and at the University of São Paulo.