Epidemics in networks
Modelling disease spread and allocating limited vaccines across connected populations.
This project studies how to allocate limited vaccines across connected populations, accounting for commuting, disease transmission, and delivery constraints. It began with my master’s dissertation at FGV/EMAp, supervised by Maria Soledad Aronna. The work combines epidemic modelling on networks with optimal control, from analysing vaccination priorities in metropolitan areas to characterising bang-bang policies under linear costs.
Related work:
- Optimal Vaccination Strategies for Epidemics in Metropolitan Areas — master’s dissertation, 2023.
- Optimal vaccination strategies on networks and in metropolitan areas — Infectious Disease Modelling, 2024.
- Bang-Bang Optimal Control of Vaccination in Metapopulation Epidemics with Linear Cost Structures — IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2025.