RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mathematical Biology · Differential Equations · Dynamical Systems · Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee
September 2014 - August 2017
Thesis: Nonlinear Nonlocal Parabolic-Hyperbolic Coupled Systems for Cancer Cell Movement and Aggregation
Supervisors: Prof. Raluca Eftimie & Prof. Mark A. J. Chaplain
Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
October 2011 - June 2014
Thesis: Rearrangement of Functions and Faber-Krahn Inequalities
Supervisors: Prof. Gerassimos Barbatis
Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
October 2005 - September 2010
Department of Mathematics, Section of Mathemartical Analysis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
October 2020 - Present
Applied Mathematics Laboratory, School of Science and Technology
Hellenic Open University
July 2020 - June 2021
School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, UK, & SciCo Cyprus
March 2019- February 2020
Research project: Calcium signalling in cancer
The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
October 2017 - February 2019
Research project: Epidemiological consequences of different vaccination strategies in Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) [SAPHIR (Η2020)]
Publications
1. Bitsouni, V., Chaplain, M. A. J. & Eftimie, R. (2017). Mathematical modelling of cancer invasion: the multiple roles of TGF-β pathways on tumour proliferation and cell adhesion. Math. Modell. Meth. Appl. Sci. (M3AS), 27(10), 1929-1962. DOI: 10.1142/S021820251750035X PDF
2. Bitsouni, V., Trucu, D., Chaplain, M. A. J. & Eftimie, R. (2018). Aggregation and travelling wave dynamics in a two-population model of cancer cells. IMA Math. Med. Biol. 35 (4), 541-577. DOI: 10.1093/imammb/dqx019 PDF
3. Bitsouni, V. & Eftimie, R. (2018). Non-local parabolic and hyperbolic models for cell polarisation in heterogeneous cancer cell populations. Bull. Math. Biol., 80 (10), 2600-2632. DOI: 10.1007/s11538-018-0477-4 PDF
4. Bitsouni, V., Lycett, S., Opriessnig, T., & Doeschl-Wilson, A. (2019). Predicting vaccine effectiveness in livestock populations: a theoretical framework applied to PRRS virus infections in pigs. PLoS ONE, 14(8): e0220738. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220738 PDF
5. Chase-Topping, M., Xie, J., Pooley, C., Trus, I., Bonckaert, C., Rediger, K., Bailey, R., Brown, H., Bitsouni, V., Barrio, B., Gueguen, S., Nauwynck, H. & Doeschl-Wilson, A. (2020) New Insights about vaccine effectiveness: Results from a PRRSV transmission experiment in pigs using an attenuated PRRS strain. Vaccine, 38 (14), 3050-3061. DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.02.015 PDF
6. Kaouri, K., Bitsouni, V., Buttenschön, A. & Thul, R. (2020) Adhesion-driven patterns in a calcium-dependent model of cancer cell movement. Submitted. arXiv : 2003.00612PDF
7. Avraam, D., Bitsouni, V., Glynatsi, N., Kaouri, K., Micheletti, A., Oliveira, R. & Zachariou, M. (2020) Breaking barriers for women in science. arXiv: 2003.01642PDF
8.Bitsouni, V., Gialelis, N. & Stratis, I. G. (2021) A model for the outbreak of COVID-19: Vaccine effectiveness in a case study of Italy. Operator Theory and Harmonic Analysis - Part II: Probability-Analytical Models, Methods and Applications, A. Karapetyants, I. V. Pavlov and A. N. Shiryaev (eds.), Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics , Vol. 358, Springer, 91-107. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76828-7 PDF
9.Bitsouni, V., Gialelis, N. & Stratis, I. G. (2022) A quantitative approach on the solvability of evolution problems in open sets of certain geometries. J. Math. Anal. Appl., 506 (2), 125663. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2021.125663 PDF
10.Bitsouni, V. & Tsilidis, V. (2022) Mathematical modeling of tumor-immune system interactions: the effect of rituximab on breast cancer immune response. J. Theor. Biol., 539, 111001. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.111001 PDF
11.Bitsouni, V., Gialelis, N. & Stratis, I. G. (2022) Rigorous Analysis of the Quasi-Steady-State Assumption in Enzyme Kinetics. Mathematics, 10(7), 1086. DOI: 10.3390/math10071086 PDF
12.Bitsouni, V. & Gialelis, N. (2022) A note on the multivariate generalization of a basic simple inequality. Math. Ineq. & Appl. (to appear). arXiv: 2109.14667PDF
13.Bitsouni, V., Gialelis, N. & Tsilidis, V. (2022) A mathematical study of the role of tBregs in breast cancer. Submitted. arXiv: 2109.14667PDF
14.Bitsouni, V., Gialelis, N. & Marinescu, D. Ş. (2022) An inequality for completely monotone functions. Submitted. arXiv: 2109.14667PDF
15.Bitsouni, Kollias, H., Leventides, J., Livada, M. & Michelacakis, N. (2022) A two-layer parametric nonlinear dynamic model of corruption deterrence. Submitted.
16.Bitsouni, Gialelis, N., Skouroliakou, A. S. Vlachadis, N. (2022) Partial dependence of fetal weight growth on each biometric variable. In preparation.
1. Partial Differential Equations I (MATH, NKUA, 2020-2021)
Notes in e-class: Σημειώσεις μαθήματος 411. Μερικές Διαφορικές Εξισώσεις Ι, 2020-2021 PDF
2. Geometric Analysis (MATH, NKUA, 2020-2021) with Dr. Nikolaos Gialelis
Notes in e-class: Σημειώσεις μαθήματος 615. Γεωμετρική Ανάλυση, 2020-2021 PDF
3. Methods of Applied Mathematics (MATH, NKUA, 2020-2021)
Notes in e-class: Σημειώσεις μαθήματος 658. Μέθοδοι Εφαρμοσμένων Μαθηματικών, 2020-2021 PDF
4.Mathematical Biology (MATH, NKUA, 2021-2022)
Notes in e-class: Σημειώσεις μαθήματος 715. Μαθηματική Βιολογία, 2021-2022 PDF