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General Information
| Full Name | Sofie Verhees |
| Languages | English, Dutch |
Employment
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Dec 2025 - present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Supervisor: Anotida Madzvamuse
Education
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2021 - 2025
PhD Mathematical Modelling, Analysis and Computation (MAC-MIGS)
Maxwell Institute Graduate School, Edinburgh, UK
- Thesis: Mathematical modelling, analysis and simulation of cellular mechanotransduction
- Supervision: Mariya Ptashnyk and Chandrasekhar Venkataraman
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2020 - 2021
MSc Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Medicine
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
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2017 - 2020
BSc (Hons) Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS)
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
- ATLAS is a three-year educational programme with a curriculum firmly based in science & mathematics and social sciences. I learned about these subjects in interactive courses and workshops and applied what I learned in a project setting.
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2019
Undergraduate Exchange Student
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South-Korea
- As an undergraduate exchange student at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, I took courses in mathematics, and bio & brain engineering.
Teaching Experience
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2022 - 2024
Tutor
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
- Tutoring and marking of undegraduate students in mathematics.
- Courses: Optimisation, Partial Differential Equations, Calculus A & B, Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists 1 & 2, Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis A, Modelling & Tools, Maths Gym.
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2020 - 2021
Teacher
De Digitale Topschool, Netherlands
- Challenging gifted primary school pupils by providing them with extracurricular assignments that exceed the difficulty level of regular education.
Awards
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2025
- Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Academic Interests
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Mathematical Biology
- Modelling cell behaviour
- Mechanotransduction
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PDEs
- PDE analysis
- Numerical simulations
- (Bulk-surface) finite elements
- Numerical convergence