Dr Panayiota Touloupou BSc MSc PhD

Dr Panayiota Touloupou

School of Mathematics
Associate Professor in Mathematics and Statistics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7092
Email
p.touloupou@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Mathematics
Watson Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Panayiota Touloupou is a Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics. Panayiota's research interests lie in statistical methodology and computational statistics. Her research mostly involves aspects of stochastic epidemic models, and applying and developing statistical methodology for the study of infectious diseases. Panayiota is a member of the Mathematical Biology and Healthcare Group, the Applied and Computational Statistics Group and the Institute of Data and AI. She is also a member of Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) committee of the School of Mathematics. Panayiota was a member of the . Panayiota has received funding for her research from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Task Force for Global Health.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Statistics, University of Warwick, 2016
  • MSc in Statistics, University of Warwick, 2012
  • BSc in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, 2011

Biography

Panayiota Touloupou graduated with a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Cyprus in 2011. She then moved to the University of Warwick to study for the MSc degree in Statistics and she carried on her studies for a PhD in Statistics under the supervision of Dr Simon Spencer and Prof. Barbel Finkenstadt at the University of Warwick. The title of her PhD was 'Bayesian inference and model selection for partially observed stochastic epidemics' and she has continued to work in infectious disease modelling ever since. In July 2016 she became a Research Fellow of the Neglected Tropical Disease modelling consortium, a large-scale international multidisciplinary collaboration between research groups working on neglected tropical disease.

As of November 2020 she became a Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the 黑料吃瓜网.

Teaching

Semester 2

LH Applied Statistics (Jinan)

Postgraduate supervision

Panayiota Touloupou is interested in supervising PhD students in Applied Statistics with particular focus on epidemiology. If you are interested, please email her.

Research

Panayiota’s research is concerned with mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and the development of novel statistical methods needed for model fitting and model selection.

Research Themes

  • Bayesian inference for infectious disease data 
  • Model comparison and model assessment
  • Stochastic epidemic models

Research Activity

Panayiota's research spans from mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and the statistical methods needed for model fitting, to the epidemiology of pathogens she is modelling. Her PhD thesis explored Bayesian techniques for parameter estimation and model comparison in the context of partially observed epidemic data. More specifically, in her PhD she developed new inference methods to learn the epidemiology of Escherichia coli O157 in cattle. Her most recent work on the project 'Projections on eliminating neglected tropical diseases' has involved developing new methods of linking geospatial models of disease prevalence with transmission models of epidemic dynamics in order to make maps of future projections of disease. These predictions can be used to inform policymakers where elimination efforts should be focused and how long it will take until elimination is achieved.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Touloupou, P, Fronterre, C, Cano, J, Prada, JM, Smith, M, Kontoroupis, P, Brown, P, Rivera, RC, Vlas, SJD, Gunawardena, S, Irvine, MA, Njenga, SM, Reimer, L, Seife, F, Sharma, S, Michael, E, Stolk, WA, Pulan, R, Spencer, SEF & Hollingsworth, TD 2024, '', Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 78, no. Supplement_2, pp. S108鈥揝116.

Prada, JM, Touloupou, P, Kebede, B, Giorgi, E, Sime, H, Smith, M, Kontoroupis, P, Brown, P, Cano, J, Farkas, H, Irvine, M, Reimer, L, Rivera, RC, Vlas, SJD, Michael, E, Stolk, WA, Pulan, R, Spencer, SEF, Hollingsworth, TD & Seife, F 2024, '', Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 78, no. Supplement_2, pp. S117鈥揝125.

Stolk, WA, Coffeng, LE, Bolay, F, Eneanya, OA, Fischer, PU, Hollingsworth, TD, Koudou, BG, Meite, A, Michael, E, Prada, JM, Rivera, RC, Sharma, S, Touloupou, P, Weil, GJ & de Vlas, SJ 2022, '', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, vol. 16, no. 12, e0010953.

NTD Modelling Consortium 2022, '', Lancet Global Health, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. E1600-E1611.

Prada, JM, Stolk, WA, Davis, EL, Touloupou, P, Sharma, S, Munoz, J, Rivera, RC, Reimer, LJ, Michael, E, de Vlas, SJ & Hollingsworth, TD 2021, '', Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 261-268.

Touloupou, P, Finkenstadt, B, Besser, TE, French, NP & Spencer, SEF 2020, '', Annals of Applied Statistics, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1925-1944.

Retkute, R, Touloupou, P, Basanez, M-G, Hollingsworth, DT & Spencer, S 2020, '', Annals of Applied Statistics.

Toor, J, Adams, ER, Aliee, M, Amoah, B, Anderson, RM, Ayabina, D, Bailey, R, Basa虂n虄ez, M-G, Blok, DJ, Blumberg, S, Borlase, A, Rivera, RC, Castan虄o, MS, Chitnis, N, Coffeng, LE, Crump, RE, Das, A, Davis, CN, Davis, EL, Deiner, MS, Diggle, PJ, Fronterre, C, Giardina, F, Giorgi, E, Graham, M, Hamley, JID, Huang, C-I, Kura, K, Lietman, TM, Lucas, TCD, Malizia, V, Medley, GF, Meeyai, A, Michael, E, Porco, TC, Prada, JM, Rock, KS, Le Rutte, EA, Smith, ME, Spencer, SEF, Stolk, WA, Touloupou, P, Vasconcelos, A, Vegvari, C, de Vlas, SJ, Walker, M & Hollingsworth, TD 2020, '', Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Touloupou, P, Finkenstadt, B & Spencer, SEF 2020, '', Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 238-249.

Touloupou, P, Retkute, R, Hollingsworth, TD & Spencer, SEF 2020, '', Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, vol. 2020, no. 00, 100391.

Prada, JM, Davis, EL, Touloupou, P, Stolk, WA, Kontoroupis, P, Smith, ME, Sharma, S, Michael, E, de Vlas, SJ & Hollingsworth, TD 2019, '', The Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 221, no. Supplement_5, pp. S503-S509.

Stolk, WA, Prada, JM, Smith, ME, Kontoroupis, P, de Vos, AS, Touloupou, P, Irvine, MA, Brown, P, Subramanian, S, Kloek, M, Michael, E, Hollingsworth, TD & de Vlas, SJ 2018, '', Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Touloupou, P, Alzahrani, N, Neal, P, Spencer, SEF & McKinley, TJ 2018, '', Bayesian Analysis.

Alzahrani, N, Neal, P, Spencer, SEF, McKinley, TJ & Touloupou, P 2018, '', Computational Statistics & Data Analysis.

Michael, E, Sharma, S, Smith, ME, Touloupou, P, Giardina, F, Prada, JM, Stolk, WA, Hollingsworth, TD & de Vlas, SJ 2018, '', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.