Angelika Manhart

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FOR MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

    UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA

I am a researcher in the interdisciplinary field of mathematics and molecular biology. I am an Assistant Professor in Mathematical Biology at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Vienna and hold an honorary position as Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at the Mathematics Department of University College London (UCL).

News

• March 2023: New Position at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Vienna!
• March 2023: New article published in eLife, Controlling periodic long-range signalling to drive a morphogenetic transition - link to eLife here.
• Oct 2022: New article accepted in PLOS Computation Biology, Chaos in sythetic microbial communities - link to bioRxiv here.
• Fall 2022: Promoted to Associate Professor!
• Fall 2022: Back at work from maternity leave - finally doing research again!

Scientific Interests
The interplay between mathematics and biology has always interested me. I believe that using good mathematical models we can capture, describe and eventually better understand biological phenomena.

• Collective motion and pattern formation in e.g. sperm or myxobacteria
• Cell migration, e.g. keratocyte movement
• Muscle development, in particular with regards to myonuclear movement and size control
• The cytoskeleton, particularly actin networks and the interplay with accessory molecules like myosin or cofilin

 Mathematically I am interested in

• Non-linear PDEs and ODEs (traveling waves, bifurcations, long-term behavior and asymptotic analysis)
  
• Agent-based models
  
• Kinetic transport equations
• The Micro-Macro passage from particle-based to macroscopic models
• Numerical simulations

More details on my current and past projects can be found on my research page.