Estimating Strain Intrinsic Transmissibility via Invasion Timescale Thresholding: A Nonlinear Dynamics Approach

Dr. Abdullah A. Al-Shammari

Dr. Al-Shammari is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Kuwait University, specializing in Mathematical Biology. He holds postgraduate degrees from the Courant Institute at NYU and the University of Oxford. He has held prestigious visiting positions at the University of Leeds and the University of Oxford and actively collaborates with biologists and medical professionals through his associate position at the Dasman Diabetes Institute. His research integrates mathematical and computational models to study biological systems, with a focus on nutrient transport, capillary supply, and epidemic transmission. He is recognized for pioneering methods in O₂ transport modeling, including the development of trapping regions in heterogeneous media and a computational framework for image-based modeling. He currently explores novel methods for estimating ecological traits in epidemic models.