Johannes Borgqvist

I am a PhD in Biomathematics currently working as a PostDoc under the supervision of Professor Ruth E. Baker at the Mathematical Insitute of the University of Oxford. I work with analysing mechanistic models in mathematical biology consisting of differential equations, both ordinary differential equations and partial differential equtions, using Lie symmetries. The main goal of my postdoc is to introduce these symmetry methods in order to analyse such mechanistic models in mathematical biology where we have particularly focused on model construction, model selection and identifiability analysis. The aim of the work is to use these methodologies in order to elucidate fundamental properties of the biological systems that are studied, and the idea is borrowed from mathematical physics where such methods have been used with great success.

EDUCATION

Before moving to Oxford, I conducted my PhD studies (from 2015 to 2020) under the supervision of professor Marija Cvijovic at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. The work consisted of constructing, analysing and validating mathematical models of protein kinetics in the context of unicellular ageing (mainly the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae) consisting of coupled systems of ODEs and PDEs. My PhD thesis can be accessed at .

In June 2020, I was awarded a prestigious scholarship for postdoctoral education by the Wenner-Gren foundations. This scholarship funds my PostDoc position at the University of Oxford for three years starting in December 2020 to December 2023. In particular, I am a Wenner-Gren fellow (see working as a visiting researcher in Oxford.

Publications

See my ORCiD page.