I am Dr Wajid Ali, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Infection Biology and Microbiomes at the University of Liverpool, UK.
I am a mathematical and computational modeller working at the interface of mathematics, biology, epidemiology, ecology, evolution, and data science. My research combines mechanistic modelling, stochastic simulation, statistical inference, and data analysis to understand biological and social systems.
I am also the Founder & Executive Director of The Maths Volunteers Foundation, a volunteer-led initiative supporting access to mathematics education.
My research interests include:
I am particularly interested in connecting mathematical models with empirical data, and in understanding how stochasticity, population structure, behaviour, and environmental processes influence biological systems.
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.
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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.
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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.
arXiv
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I use GitHub to organise research software, reproducible analyses, methodological implementations, and code associated with scientific projects.
Selected repositories include:
gillespie-algorithm
Python and MATLAB implementations of the Gillespie stochastic simulation algorithm, including birth-death and SIR processes.
occupancy-modelling
Worked examples of occupancy modelling while accounting for imperfect detection.
bayesian-data-analysis
Examples illustrating Bayesian computation, MCMC, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, and Stan.
Additional research and reproducibility repositories will be added as projects and associated publications become publicly available.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
My academic background includes:
My PhD research focused on the mathematical modelling of epidemics, evolution, and social interaction.
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Alongside my research, I am the Founder & Executive Director of The Maths Volunteers Foundation, which I established in 2020 to support free and accessible mathematics education.
My academic leadership and service have also included:
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University: University of Liverpool, UK
Email: wajidaliuop22 [at] gmail.com
I am happy to hear from researchers interested in collaboration and from prospective Master’s or PhD applicants seeking advice on postgraduate study and scholarships.
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