CNRS Research Director (Directeur de Recherche)


Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions
Sorbonne Université
4 place Jussieu, F75005 PARIS, FRANCE


Access to LJLL

e-mail : luis.almeida (at) sorbonne-universite.fr
Office 321,Tower 16-26, 3rd floor, 
Tél :  +33 1 44 27 91 70
	
    
    

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3344-0366

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fFOWkGoAAAAJ&hl=fr


Publications



Main research interests:

• Partial Differential Equations (PDE) in Mathematical Physics and Geometry.
• Mathematical modeling of morphogenesis and tissue repair.
• Mathematical study of population dynamics and movement.
• Mathematical models for tumor growth and therapy.
• Mathematical epidemiology and in particular models for vector population dynamics and control of vector borne diseases.
• Mathematical modeling in Agro-ecology
  

Events:

Mathematical modeling of organization in living matter: January to April 2022 at IHP.

Teaching in 2022:

• Mathematical Epidemiology (with Odo Diekmann), January to March 2022, Master 2 Mathématiques de la modélisation, Sorbonne Université.
• Mathematical methods in biology, October to December 2022, Master 2 Mathématiques de la modélisation, Sorbonne Université.
• Recent Master 2 internships: Kala Agbo Bidi (Sorbonne Université, 2022, co-directed with Jean-Michel Coron), Federica Padovano (EPFL, 2023)
  

Present and recent scientific organization and administration activities:

• Co-organization of the Mathematical Modeling in Vector Control Workshop, Foz do Arelho, Portugal.
• Co-organization of the Modeling Cell and Tissue Biomechanics Workshop, Paris, France.
  
• Co-organization of the MBMC 2022 Workshop and School, Heraklion (Greece)
  
• Co-organization of the one trimester program at IHP on Mathematical modeling of organization in living matter. January to April 2022 (co-organized with V. Calvez, M. Doumic, B. Perthame and P. Reynaud-Bouret).
• Coordinator (together with T. Lorenzi) of the MOCETIBI CNRS International Research Project.
  
• Head of French partner in the Hubert Curien program Pessoa Project Mathematical models for mosquito population dynamics and applications to control of vector-borne diseases (since January 2020).
• Head of Mathematical group  in the World Health Organization TDR/IAEA project PAcific Islands Consortium for the Evaluation of Aedes SIT (PAC-SIT) (since 2020).
• Head of the sustainable laboratory committee of the LJLL since 2019.
  
• Head of the LJLL partner in the Moglimaging project of the Cancer Plan program Heterogeneity of Tumors and Environment 2016-2020.
• Associate editor of the Journal of dynamics & games.
• Head of the PICS CNRS Royal Society Equations structurées pour la co-évolution de populations cellulaires (2017-2019).
• Member of the Interdisciplinary committee CID 51 of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique 2013-2016.
• Person in charge of the Mathématiques Appliquées aux Sciences Biologiques et Biomédicales Master 2 program of Sorbonne Université since 2012.
• Organiser of the Mathématiques pour la Biologie et la Santé seminar at Sorbonne Université 2012-2022.
• Head of the Programme Hubert Curien Pessoa project Formation and contraction of actin structures in epithelial wound healing.
• Head of the Programme Hubert Curien Galileo project Etude mathématique et modélisation de la fermeture de trous épithéliaux.

Selected Publications: