MSc Candidate
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Precious Chiwira (MSc Mathematical sciences, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences -AIMS)

Level: MSc 

Supervisor: Prof. Cang Hui (Stellenbosch University)

Co-supervisor: Dr. Pietro Landi (Stellenbosch University)

Biography

Precious Chiwira grew up in the middle part of Zimbabwe, where she completed her BSc Honours degree in Mathematics at Midlands State University. She moved to African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (South Africa) where she completed her MSc in Mathematical Sciences. Apart from the love of mathematics, she loves arts and crafts (hairdressing, sewing, knitting, fashion and so forth). She is eager to try and learn new things

Research

Precious’ research interest lies in different biological areas particularly, ecology and epidemiology. Her current research focuses on eco-evolutionary processes acting on communities with various species. Of particular interest, the community patterns that will be formed after continuously introducing new species into the community are going to be explored. She is interested in the position of fitness-maximizing traits of an individual species and the evolutionarily stable strategy is sought such that no more rare mutants with alternative strategies will invade the community.

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