Nancy Walker

DTP: INSPIRE

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nancy_c_walker

PhD Project Title:  Modelling the mechanisms of olive dieback caused by Xylella fastidiosa biofilms

Supervisory Team: Prof. Tiina Roose (UoS), Dr. Steven White (UKCEH), Dr. Maria Saponari (CNR Bari)

Qualifications:

First Class MMath (with Honours), University of Warwick

Dissertation – Joint Optimisation of Spatial and Temporal Derivatives for Simulations of Varying Amplitude Waves (supervised by Dr Ed Brambley)

Research interests:

  • Image-based modelling
  • Numerical methods for PDEs
  • Fluid Dynamics