معرفی
Cristiana J. Silva is an Assistant Professor (with Habilitation) in the Department of Mathematics at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISTA), Portugal. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Aveiro and Université d'Orléans, and a Bachelor's in Mathematics from the University of Coimbra. Her research focuses on mathematical epidemiology, optimal control theory, and biomathematical modeling with applications to public health and disease dynamics.
She teaches courses such as Computational Optimization (Master in Artificial Intelligence), Differential Calculus, and Mathematics for Management programs. Silva has supervised multiple doctoral and master's students, including Ana Pedro Lemos-Paiao (2019), Zaitri Mohamed Abdelaziz (2020), and Sergio Punishment (ongoing). Her postdoctoral supervision includes Asmae Tajani (2023–2025).
Her work emphasizes HIV/AIDS, cholera, and Zika virus modeling, with notable contributions to fractional calculus applications in epidemiology. She has developed compartmental models for infectious diseases like the SIQRB delayed cholera model and a hybrid model analyzing human behavior impacts on epidemics. Recent research includes optimizing control strategies for pandemics such as Portugal's sanitary deconfinement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her publications span journals like Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, AIMS Mathematics, and Scientific Reports, with over 2,100 Google Scholar citations. Silva collaborates internationally, contributing to interdisciplinary projects involving complex networks and optimal intervention strategies for public health crises.
