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General Information

Full Name Sofie Verhees
Languages English, Dutch

Employment

  • Dec 2025 - present
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    • Supervisor: Anotida Madzvamuse

Education

  • 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
  • 2020 - 2021
    MSc Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Medicine
    Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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

  • 2025
    • Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

Academic Interests

  • Mathematical Biology
    • Modelling cell behaviour
    • Mechanotransduction
  • PDEs
    • PDE analysis
    • Numerical simulations
    • (Bulk-surface) finite elements
    • Numerical convergence