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Congratulations to Jair Andrade who successfully defended his PhD  thesis today.

Jair, whose PhD was supervised by Prof. Jim Duggan, did his PhD on the topic of “Advances in the estimation of the reproduction number from compartmental models using contemporary Monte Carlo methods”. Whether we liked it or not, we all became familiar with R-numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Jair’s thesis makes important contributions in that field.

We are very grateful to the external examiner, Prof. Ben Bolker (Departments of Mathematics and Statistics and Biology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario), and to Dr. James Mc Dermott (Lecturer in Computer Science). The Head of the School of Computer Science, Professor Michael Madden chaired the viva. The examiners were very impressed with the quality of Jair’s work, so Jair is to be commended for that, as is Jim as his supervisor.

This was a hybrid viva, with the external examiner attending remotely.

Congratulations, Jair!