Rob Sunnucks

Projects

• What is the value of entomological monitoring in tsetse control? Modelling the use of tsetse data for adaptive management of vector control in new regions.
  • PhD work on how monitoring the tsetse population can prove valuable in assisting elimination efforts of gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis (gHAT), otherwise known as sleeping sickness.
  • Supervisors: Prof Kat Rock and Dr Emma Davis. External partners: National Sleeping Sickness Control Programme in DR Congo (PNLTHA-DRC) and Dr Inaki Tirados at LSTM.
  • Working as a part of the HAT Modelling and Economic Predictions for Policy (HAT MEPP) team.
• Adaptive Management for Strategies against NTDs

  • MSc Individual Project - Supervisors: Prof Kat Rock and Dr Emma Davis

  • Continuing into PhD work
• Determining the phase transition for human-to-human transmissible and non-human to-human transmissible influenza strains
  • MSc Group Project - Supervisors: Prof Matt Keeling and Dr Ed Hill
  • Further work done to become a paper: Introducing a framework for within host-dynamics and mutations modelling of H5N1 influenza infection in humans - Higgins, Looker, Sunnucks, Carruthers, Finnie, Keeling and Hill
• The dynamics of fast-start motions observed in fish
  • MMath research project - Supervisor: Dr Shreyas Mandre

Teaching Responsibilities

2024/25

• Supervisor for two groups of first-year Mathematics students
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for MA265 - Methods of Mathematical Modelling 3

Education

• PhD (ongoing) in Mathematics of Systems
  • MathSys CDT, University of Warwick, 2024-present
• MSc in Mathematics of Systems
  • MathSys CDT, University of Warwick, 2023-2024
• MMath in Mathematics
  • University of Warwick, 2019-2023