Students and trainees

Graduate student recruitment

I am always looking to support graduate students with a strong interest in mathematical biology, who are interested in deriving, analyzing, parameterizing and validating dynamical systems models in ecology and epidemiology.

If you are interested in becoming a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow in my lab, please watch the Society for Mathematical Biology Forum, the Theoretical Ecology Wiki for the Ecological Society of America, IDDjobs and the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution job listings, where I will advertise available positions during the month of October.

You can submit your documents for consideration here. I will review submitted applications beginning in November of each year for admissions in the following September. In fairness to all interested, I do not take graduate applications without advertising, however, all positions remain open until filled. On some occasions positions can be unfilled after an October search. Please email me if you have submitted your documents independently of the advertisements so I can review your submission.

Current trainees

  • Giuseppe Pasqualino (PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies)

  • Francis Anokye (PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies)

  • Joseph Baafi (PhD in Biology)

  • Laura Bruce (Medical Student)

  • Joshua Mack (MSc in Biology)

  • Miranda Wallace (MSc in Data Science)

  • Abdou Fofana (PDF)

Resources for trainees in the Hurford Lab. To write an abstract please following the guidance described in How to write a Nature summary paragraph. To learn how to write please read Scientific writing made easy by Turbeck and colleagues.

Graduates

  • George Adu-Boahen (MSc in Mathematics, 2025). Optimal control strategies in epidemic models: analysis of community and traveler isolation strategies under resource constraints.

  • Amin Afshari (Honours/SURA, 2025). PhD student, Simon Fraser University.

  • Dr. Zahra (Mohammadi) Cook (PDF 2021-2023). Python Instructor, Canadian Institute for Health Information.

  • Dr. Bo Zhang

  • Dr. Maria M. Martignoni (PDF 2020-2022). Postdoctoral fellow, Georgia State University.

  • Joshua Renault (USRA)

  • Jake Prosser, Data analytics, New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data, and Training.

  • Dr. Joany Marino, Postdoctoral fellow, University Medicine of Greifswald

  • Dr. Abdou Fofana, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University.

  • Joe Moran, Center for Disease Control (USA).

  • Fabio Frazao, PhD student, Dalhousie University.

  • Sovit Chalise, HS GovTech Solutions Inc.

  • Dr. Josie Hughes, Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada.

  • Matt Rittenhouse, Data analyist, Goodlife fitness.