Prof. Raluca EFTIMIE

Laboratoire mathématiques de Besançon (for research) & ISIFC (for teaching)
Université Marie & Louis Pasteur (former Université de Franche-Comté), Besançon, 25000, France
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Honorary Professor, Science & Engineering, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Applied Mathematics: Mathematical Biology, Scientific Computing
- Dec. 2020 – current: Professor (Full) at University of Franche-Comté, France
- March 2021- current: Honorary Professor at University of Dundee, UK
- Oct-Nov 2020: Professor (Chair) at University of Dundee, UK
- Oct 2017-Oct 2020: Reader at University of Dundee, UK
- Oct 2014-Sept 2017: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at University of Dundee, UK
- Sept 2011-Sept 2014: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at University of Dundee, UK
- July 2008-Sept 2011: Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University, Canada
- Sept 2002- May 2008: PhD student, University of Alberta, Canada
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- Contact:
- Email: FirstName.LastName [at] univ-fcomte.fr
Group news:
- Congratulations Olusegun for successfully defending your PhD Thesis “Mathematical modelling, analysis, and numerical approaches for keloid dynamics“. Thesis supported by 4 published papers and 1 manuscript submitted. Well done!
- Congratulations Olusegun for your article “Deep Learning Approaches for the Classification of Keloid Images in the Context of Malignant and Benign Skin Disorders“, accepted for publication in Diagnostics!
- Congratulations Johan, for your article “Numerical Approaches for Non-Local Transport-Dominated PDE Models with Applications to Biology“, accepted for publication in Computational and Applied Mathematics !
- Welcome to Ali Daher, new postdoctoral research fellow in the group.
- Congratulations Olusegun for the publication of your article “Analytical investigation of a non-local mathematical model for normal and abnormal wound healing” ( https://www.aimsciences.org/article/doi/10.3934/dcdsb.2024171 ) !
- Congratulations Mathilde for successfully defending your PhD thesis!
- A new book is available from World Scientific Press: “Modelling and Computational Approaches for Multi-Scale Phenomena in Cancer Research” (https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0424#t=aboutBook) A very big thank you to all contributors to this volume !

- Fareeha, Rita and Leila: congratulations for your R&D master projects and posters. Good luck with the clinical internships !
- Congratulations Mathilde for the publication of your paper “Modelling and investigating memory immune responses in infectious disease. Application to influenza a virus and sars-cov-2 reinfections” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468042724001155
- Congratulations Trung for the publication of your paper “Transitions between Localised Patterns with Different Spatial Symmetries in Non-Local Hyperbolic Models for Self-Organised Biological Aggregations” https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16101257
PhD positions:
Students interested in a PhD, please contact me directly (please don’t forget to attach to your email your detailed CV and your Undergrad/Master transcripts)
MSc projects:
Students interested in research projects (“M1/M2 stages”) please contact me directly.
>Open research questions that can be addressed with mathematical models (ODEs, PDEs, agent-based models) in areas of: (a) fibro-proliferative disorders : Dupuytren disease , keloids ; (b) cancer immunotherapies ; (c) psycho-neuro-immunology.
Related personal academic webpages:
| Laboratoire de Mathématique de Besançon (Université Franche-Comté) & ISIFC (Université Franche-Comté) | ResearchGate |
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| ORCID | Publons |
"If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same – it is the message you leave behind you that counts."
"In life one should never give in, surrender oneself to mediocrity, but rather move out of that grey area where everything is habit and passive resignation. One has to grow the courage to rebel"
— Rita Levi-Montalcini -

