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Research Updates February-March 2025

Apr 01 2025 Posted: 15:38 IST
  • Badriah Safarji (supervised by Rachel Quinlan and Cian O'Brien) delivered a presentation at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in February. 
  • Nirdesh Bakshi (Supervised by Dr. Neil O'Leary) had his abstract titled - "Proof of Concept: An Interpretable Sensitivity Analysis to Binary Outcome Variables with partially missing data" accepted for Conference on Applied Statistics Ireland (CASI) in March.
  • Tomás Gillanders, BSc Mathematical Science 2024, has been accepted with full funding to the DPhil in Mathematics programme at the University of Oxford, to work with Professor Alain Goriely FRS, a collaborator of Valentina and Michel. Tomás won the Peel Prize in Geometry and the Michael A. Hayes Prize in Continuum Mechanics while in Galway, and is currently completing an MSc in Mathematical Science at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford.    
  • Davood was invited to give a seminar entitled "Challenge Your Limits!" at the Department of Mathematics, University of Limerick. 
  • Cathal had a paper accepted for publication in PloS Genetics, with input from a summer internship student, Seán O'Connaire, and PhD student Mehak Chopra. 
  • Mehak Chopra (supervised by Cathal Seoighe) won the prize for best poster at EuroAgeNet Liverpool 2025: Cell Communication Networks in Ageing and Disease Conference.
  • Angela Carnevale, Joshua Maglione, and Tobias Rossmann hosted Christopher Voll from Bielefeld University during 6--19 February.
  • Dmytro Lyubka (Final Year Project 2024 with Michel) has accepted a DPhil offer at the University of Oxford. He'll be joining the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology to work with Professor Philip Maini FRS on mathematical models in developmental biology. After a BSc in Mathematical Science in Galway, where he won the Peel Prize and the Hamilton Prize, Dmytro went to the University of Cambridge, where he is currently completing a MASt in Pure Mathematics.
  • Niall, along with Nanda, Sean and Jekaterina, is hosting the 21st Workshop on Numerical Methods for Problems with Layer Phenomena April 24-25. For more see https://www.niallmadden.ie/LayerPhenomena2025/ 
  • The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences annual Research Day will take place on April 16th. As in recent years we will have talks from colleagues within each of our disciplines, a session of lightning talks and a poster session, see https://www.universityofgalway.ie/science-engineering/school-of-maths/research/schoolresearchday/.

Outputs

  • Khazaei, O., Laffey, C. M., Sheerin, R., McNicholas, B. A., Pham, T., Heunks, L., Bellani, G., Brochard, L., Simpkin, A.J., Laffey, J.G. (2025). Impact of comorbidities on management and outcomes of patients weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation: insights from the WEAN SAFE study. Critical Care, 29, 114. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-025-05341-7
  • Laffey, C. M., Sheerin, R., Khazaei, O., McNicholas, B. A., Pham, T., Heunks, L., Bellani, G., Brochard, L., Tomescu, D., Simpkin, A.J. and Laffey, J.G. (2025). Impact of frailty and older age on weaning from invasive ventilation: a secondary analysis of the WEAN SAFE study. Annals of Intensive Care, 15(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-025-01435-1
  • Simpkin, A. J., McNicholas, B. A., Hannon, D., Bartlett, R., Chiumello, D., Dalton, H. J., ... & COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium. (2025). Effect of early and later prone positioning on outcomes in invasively ventilated COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: analysis of the prospective COVID-19 critical care consortium cohort study. Annals of Intensive Care, 15(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-025-01422-6
  • Gunning, E., Golovkine, S., Simpkin, A. J., Burke, A., Dillon, S., Gore, S., & Bargary, N. (2025). Analysing kinematic data from recreational runners using functional data analysis. Computational Statistics, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-024-01591-1
  • Golovkine, S., Gunning, E., Simpkin, A. J., & Bargary, N. (2025). On the estimation of the number of components in multivariate functional principal component analysis. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2025.2459862
  • Matthews, S., Nikoonejad Fard, V., Tollis, M., & Seoighe, C. (2025). Variable gene copy number in cancer-related pathways is associated with cancer prevalence across mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution, msaf056. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf056
  • Berjamin, H., & Destrade, M. (2025). Models of fractional viscous stresses for incompressible materials. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 30(2), 540-555. https://doi.org/10.1177/10812865241233973 
  • Gower, A. L., Shearer, T., Ciarletta, P., & Destrade, M. (2025). The elastic stored energy of initially strained, or stressed, materials: Restrictions and third-order expansions. Proceedings of The Royal Society A 481(2307), 20240272. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0272 
  • Baykalov, A. (2025). Base sizes for finite linear groups with solvable stabilisers. Journal of Group Theory. https://doi.org/10.1515/jgth-2023-0125 
  • Cruickshank, J., Jackson, B., & Tanigawa, S. I. (2025). Volume Rigidity of Simplicial Manifolds. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.01647.
  • Daniels, D., Roshan, D., Lewis, N. A., Newell, J., Bruinvels, G., Catterson, P., … Pedlar, C. R. (2025). Early warning system for player recovery? A series of case studies illustrating the application of individualised adaptive reference ranges in the longitudinal blood monitoring of English Premier League soccer players. Biomarkers, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354750X.2025.2473724 
  • McAleese T, Welch N, King E, Roshan D, et al. Primary Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Level 1 Athletes: Factors Associated With Return to Play, Reinjury, and Knee Function at 5 Years of Follow-up. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2025;53(4):777-790. https://doi.org/10.1177/03635465241313386 
  • Brooksbank, P. A., Dietrich, H., Maglione, J., O'Brien, E. A., & Wilson, J. B. (2025). Categorification of characteristic structures. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.01138. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.01138

Tips/other

  • The university is in the process of rolling out the new Research Information System (Pure), replacing IRIS. The public portal will officially launch on April 4th. In the run-up to this date, members of staff are encouraged to review and edit their profiles on the new system and link their profiles with relevant online accounts (see your profile here: https://research.universityofgalway.ie/admin/workspace/personal/overview/), including ORCID and Scopus. Additionally, you can claim publications and research outputs from these sources to address a known issue affecting the display of multiple authors when migrating between our old and new systems (see resources here: https://nuigalwayie.sharepoint.com/sites/cris).

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