Dr Gianne Derks

Reader

Qualifications: Ir (Eindhoven), Dr (Twente)

Email:
Phone: Work: 01483 68 9645
Room no: 36 AA 04

Further information

Biography

I graduated as an "Ingenieur in Mathematics" at the Technical University of Eindhoven in 1988 and I got my PhD from the University of Twente in 1992. In 1993/94 I was awarded a NATO Research Fellowship to do research at the University of California Santa Cruz and the MSRI in Berkeley. In the following year 1994/95, I was a Research Fellow at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. In 1995, I started at the University of Surrey and I am currently a Reader in the Department of Mathematics.

Research Interests

  • Hamiltonian systems (ODEs and PDEs) with perturbations like dissipation and/or forcing;
  • Dissipation induced instability;
  • Inhomogeneous wave equations;
  • Stability and instability of travelling waves and front solutions, for example for (semi)-kinks in Josephson junctions or ionization waves in gas discharges;
  • Multi-symplectic systems;
  • Mathematical models in pharmacology, toxicology and metabolism (including pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics and physiology based dynamical models);
  • Cycles in sleep-wake models, endocrinology; 
  • Wave dynamics in DNA-RNAP interactions.

Further details can be found on my personal web page.

Publications

A full list of my publications and pre-prints can be found on my  personal web page.

Teaching

In 2012/13 I am lecturing the following module:

Some suggestions for final year projects or literature reviews can be found here.

Departmental Duties

Coordinator Mathematics PhD Studies Programme,
Phd Admissions Tutor,
IT Liaison,
Deputy Head of Department.

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