Address


Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies
University of Primorska
Glagoljaška 8
SI-6000 Koper
Slovenia

E-mail: barbara.boldin@upr.si


Research


Research interests

Mathematical biology, in particular adaptive dynamics and evolutionary epidemiology.

Positions

  • 2010 - : Assistant professor
    University of Primorska, Slovenia
  • 2008 - 2010 : Postdoctoral researcher
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 2003 - 2007: PhD student
    Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands


    • Publications


    Journal articles

  • B. Boldin: Introducing a population into a steady community: the critical case, the centre manifold and the direction of bifurcation. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 66 (2006), Issue 4, pp. 1424-1453
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  • B. Boldin, M.J.M. Bonten, O. Diekmann: Relative effects of barrier precautions and topical antibiotics on nosocomial bacterial transmission: results of multi-compartment models. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Volume 69 (2007), No. 7, pp. 2227-2248
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  • B. Boldin, O. Diekmann: Superinfections can induce evolutionarily stable coexistence of pathogens. Journal of Mathematical Biology, Volume 56 (2008), Issue 5, pp. 635-672.
  • B. Boldin: Persistence and spread of gastro-intestinal infections: the case of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in piglets. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Volume 70 (2008), No.7, pp. 2077-2101
  • B. Boldin, S.A.H. Geritz, É. Kisdi: Superinfections and adaptive dynamics of pathogen virulence revisited: A critical function analysis. Evolutionary Ecology Research, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2009), pp. 153-175.
  • A. Alizon, B. Boldin: Within-host viral evolution in a heterogeneous environment: insights into the HIV co-receptor switch. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 23 (2010), pp. 2625-2635.
  • B. Boldin, É. Kisdi: On the evolutionary dynamics of pathogens with direct and environmental transmission. Evolution, Vol. 66, No. 8, (2012), pp. 2514-2527.
  • É. Kisdi, B. Boldin: A construction method to study the role of incidence in the adaptive dynamics of pathogens with direct and environmental transmission . Journal of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 66, Issue 4-5 (2013), pp. 1021-1044

    • Conference proceedings


  • B. Boldin: On the evolutionary dynamics of virulence. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Nordic EWM Summer School for PhD students in Mathematics (Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytönen, Camilla Hollanti (eds.)), TUCS General Publication, No. 53 (2009), pp. 43-60.
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    PhD Thesis

  • B. Boldin: Mathematical aspects of infectious disease dynamics. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (2007). ISBN 978-90-9022069-7.

    • Master's Thesis

  • B. Boldin: Deterministic structured population epidemic models. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2003).
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    Awards


  • I won the Reinhart Heinrich Award for the best PhD thesis in the field of mathematical and theoretical biology in the year 2007. The award is given out by the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology.
  • I won the 2010 Lee Segel Award for Best Student Paper. The award is given out by the Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology.


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