TÜBİTAK Project on Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases

Our faculty member in Department of Mathematics, Dr. Meltem Gölgeli has been awarded a TUBITAK 1001 Grant for the project "Mathematical modelling of seasonal dynamics of infectious diseases and the seasonal exacerbation of bacterial meningitis in Turkey". Her project was deemed worthy of support as one of the 271 projects among 2226 applications for the 1st call period in 2019-TUBITAK 1001 Grant. Prof. Dr. Fatihcan Atay from Bilkent University takes part as a researcher in the project.

The project includes research topics about mathematical models of infectious diseases. During the project, seasonal exacerbation of a disease, estimation of the associated parameters and the possible control strategies that may prevent the spread of the disease will be investigated using different mathematical methods. The constituted mathematical model will be specialized to the model of seasonal dynamics of bacterial meningitis disease, which is quite remarkable in terms of lethality and sequelae left by the patient in our country, if not in terms of prevalence. The analysis of delayed differential equations and non-autonomous dynamic systems are two main topics of the research.

The duration of the project is 30 months and a master's and a post-doctoral research scholarship are available. The master grant offers a proficiency in the field of delayed differential equations in mathematical modeling of infectious diseases and post-doctoral research grant offers a career plan for a young scientist on working about the mathematical analysis of non-autonomous differential equations and their medical-biological applications. The interdisciplinary research potential of the project is high and the outcomes of the research will be published in interdisciplinary scientific journals. 

We would like to congratulate Dr. Meltem Gölgeli for the award she received and wish success in her academic life.