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Project properties |
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| Title | Modelling dengue dynamics and resilience |
| Group | Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 24-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Clara Delecroix (clara.delecroix@wur.nl)
Ingrid van de Leemput (ingrid@wur.nl) |
| Examiner(s) | Ingrid van de Leemput |
| Contact info | Clara Delecroix (clara.delecroix@wur.nl)
Ingrid van de Leemput (ingrid@wur.nl) Edwin Peeters (edwin.peeters@wur.nl) for general issues about thesis/internship |
| Begin date | 2021/02/22 |
| End date | 2023/12/29 |
| Description |
The student will focus on the analysis of an epidemiological compartmental model for dengue, a tropical mosquito-borne disease. These models divide the population into several compartments depending on their epidemiological state: susceptible, infected, recovered... In the case of vector-borne diseases, the population dynamics of mosquitoes are also modeled. The student will implement the model using grind, a MATLAB package, and do a bifurcation analysis, that is to study the changes in the dynamic of the system occurring when a parameter value is changed. |
| Used skills | Literature review, data analysis, modelling |
| Requirements | The student is expected to have experience with Matlab or another coding language, or be willing to learn |