Dr. Amy Hurford

I am a Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Biology and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

I am the Director of the Atlantic Canada Center for Disease Ecology Modelling (ACCDMi).

My research is in theoretical ecology, evolution and epidemiology. I make models of appropriate complexity, that consider the best available data, that answer meaningful questions, and where the results are interpreted and communicated appropriately.

I want to help trainees learn the best approaches to data analysis in biology. In 2023, I was awarded the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.

I am a senior editor at the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. During my term as chair of the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Membership committee for the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, I authored this report.

Education

  • PDF, 2012. The Fields Institute, York University, and the University of Toronto.
  • PhD, 2011. Mathematics & Statistics, Queen’s University
  • MSc, 2005. Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

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“Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomenon and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.” – Joseph Fourier