Wajid Ali

👋 Welcome to My Page

I am Wajid Ali, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool, UK. My work bridges mathematics, biology, and data science through the development of mathematical models to understand real-world systems such as epidemics, evolution, and human behaviour.

🔬 Research Interests

My research focuses on stochastic and deterministic modelling of biological and social systems, including:

Epidemics and vaccine hesitancy
Eco-evolutionary dynamics, conservation, and behavioural ecology
Evolutionary game theory and network-structured populations
Time series forecasting and machine learning
Genomic data analysis

📄 Research Outputs

🧪 Key Journal Articles

C. Morison, M. Fic, T. Marcou, et al., and W. Ali (2025). Public goods games in disease evolution and spread. Dynamic Games and Applications, pp. 1–17. DOI
W. Ali, C. E. Overton, R. R. Wilkinson, and K. J. Sharkey (2024). Deterministic epidemic models overestimate the basic reproduction number of observed outbreaks. Infectious Disease Modelling, 9(3), 680–688. DOI
K. Pattni, W. Ali, M. Broom, and K. J. Sharkey (2023). Eco-evolutionary dynamics in finite network-structured populations with migration. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 572, 111587. DOI
J. Wang, A. Zada, and W. Ali (2018). Ulam’s-type stability of first-order impulsive differential equations with variable delay in quasi–Banach spaces. International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, 19(5), 553–560. DOI

📘 Preprints

W. Ali, J. Mohamadichamgavi, J. Ramirez, J. Aguilar, A. Fernández Anta, and K. J. Sharkey (2025). A mathematical model of vaccine hesitancy: Analysing the impact of political trends and interaction across age and education groups in the USA.
W. Ali, S. E. Zytynska, and K. J. Sharkey (2025). Quantifying plants and insect herbivores’ response to microbiomes using a nonlinear Leslie model.

📍 See List of Publications for the full list.

🧠 Leadership Roles

2020–Present: Founder & Executive Director, The Maths Volunteers Foundation
2024: Lead Organiser, Maths Volunteers In-Person Training, Peshawar, Pakistan
2023–2024: Leader, Review Paper – Public Goods Games in Disease Evolution (MSCA-EvoGamesPlus)
2022–2023: PGR Representative, Staff-Student Liaison Committee, University of Liverpool
2021–2022: ESR Representative, MSCA-EvoGamesPlus Consortium
2018: Co-organiser, Workshop Series on Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems (2nd)
Department of Mathematics, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (17 February 2018)
2017: Co-organiser, Workshop Series on Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems (1st)
Department of Mathematics, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (05 May 2017)

🗣️ Selected Talks

2025: A mathematical model of vaccine hesitancy – University of Liverpool (Virtual)
2024: Modelling attitudes towards vaccination – EvoGamesPlus Winter School, Hungary
2023: Deterministic models and basic reproduction number – Epidemics 9, Bologna
2023: Eco-evolutionary dynamics – MPDEE Conference, France
2022: Evolutionary models in network-structured populations – EvoGamesPlus Winter School, Germany

Invited Talks

2023: Evolutionary Graph Theory and Scholarship Application Guidelines – Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
2023: Scholarship Application Guidelines – Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
2021: Scholarship Application Guidelines – University of Peshawar, Pakistan

📍 See Talks for the full list.

🌍 Research Visits

IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain — Oct–Nov 2023
University of Turin, Italy — Feb–Mar 2023
City, University of London, UK — Apr–Jul 2023

🎓 Employment & Education

Postdoc (x2)

Marie Curie PhD Fellow

MSc & BSc (Hons) in Mathematics

📍 See Employment History & Education for the full list.

🏅 Awards & Certifications

🤝 Volunteer Work

I come from an educationally disadvantaged background and have dedicated years to volunteer teaching. This led to the creation of The Maths Volunteers Foundation – a community-driven initiative for free mathematics education.

👉 Visit Maths Volunteers’ website

👉 See my past volunteers activities

📌 Misc.

Skills, Side Projects, Blogs, Code, Training, Supervision

📬 Contact Me

Office: Floor 2, Bioscinces Building, University of Liverpool, UK
Email: wajidaliuop22 [at] gmail.com

I am happy to help prospective Master’s and PhD applicants. Feel free to reach out!

🔗 Elsewhere

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