Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova is Professor of Mathematics for Healthcare in the Living Systems Institute and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Exeter (UoE), UK. She received her MSc (Mathematics) from the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria and PhD (Applied Mathematica) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research and professional activities aim to inform novel applications of mathematics to enable the development of quantitative methods for healthcare and healthcare technologies. In her research, she develops and analyses mathematical models for applications to personalised prediction and clinical decision support in prevention, diagnosis or treatment of health-related conditions. She also serves as Associate Dean for International and Development in the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at UoE (2018-2024).
Selected Awards
2021-2025, Director of the EPSRC Hub for Quantitative Modelling in Healthcare
2021, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Strategic Advisory Network member
2020, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
2019, Guest Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Center for Mathematical Sciences, at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
2013-, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol
2002-2003, New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA) PhD scholarship award
1991-1996, Bulgarian Ministry of Education Scholarship for high academic achievement
Research Interests
Biomathematics, Dynamical systems, Numerical continuation, Data driven modelling, Scientific computing.
Applications to cellular signal-transduction pathways such as calcium dynamics, hormone signalling, neuronal excitability, movement science, experimental psychology and healthcare technologies.
Selected Publications
Challen R, Brooks-Pollock E, Read JM, Dyson L, Tsaneva-Atanasova K, Danon L. (2021) Risk of mortality in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/1: matched cohort study, BMJ, volume 372, pages n579-n579, DOI:10.1136/bmj.n579
Slowiński P, Al-Ramadhani S, Tsaneva-Atanasova K., 2020, Neurologically Motivated Coupling Functions in Models of Motor Coordination, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, volume 19, pages 208-232, article no. 1, DOI:10.1137/19M1279381.
Eder Zavala, Kyle C. A. Wedgwood, Margaritis Voliotis, Joël Tabak, Francesca Spiga, Stafford L. Lightman, Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova, 2019, Mathematical Modelling of Endocrine Systems, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, 30(4): 244-257.
S. J. Rahi, J. Larsch, K. Pecani, N. Mansouri, A. Y. Katsov, K. Tsaneva-Atanasova, E. D. Sontag, F. R. Cross, 2017, Oscillatory stimuli differentiate adapting circuit topologies, Nature Methods, 14(10): 1010-1016.
Shen Y, Tino P, Tsaneva-Atanasova K, 2017, Classification framework for partially observed dynamical systems, Physical Review E, 95(4), 043303-043303-21.
Thom Griffith, Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova and Jack Mellor, 2016, Control of Ca2+ influx and calmodulin activation by SK-channels in dendritic spines, PLoS Computational Biology, 12(5): e1004949.
Hinke M Osinga, Arthur Sherman and Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova, 2012, Cross-Currents Between Biology and Mathematics: The Codimension Of Pseudo-Plateau Bursting, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A), 32(8): 2853–2877.
K. Tsaneva-Atanasova, A. Burgo, T. Galli and D. Holcman, 2009, Quantifying neurite growth mediated by interactions between secretory vesicles, microtubules and actin networks, Biophysical Journal, 96(3): 840-57.
J. Sneyd, K. Tsaneva-Atanasova, D.I. Yule, J. L. Thompson and T. J. Shuttleworth, 2004, Control of calcium oscillations by membrane fluxes, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 101(5): 1392-1396.
Böhle, Tobias; Thalhammer, Mechthild; Kuehn, Christian: Community integration algorithms (CIAs) for dynamical systems on networks. Journal of Computational Physics 469, 2022, 111524 more…
Kuehn, Christian; Berglund, Nils; Bick, Christian; Engel, Maximilian; Hurth, Tobias; Iuorio, Annalisa; Soresina, Cinzia: A general view on double limits in differential equations. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 431, 2022, 133105 more…
Mulas, Raffaella; Kuehn, Christian; Böhle, Tobias; Jost, Jürgen: Random walks and Laplacians on hypergraphs: When do they match? Discrete Applied Mathematics 317, 2022, 26-41 more…
Wang, Ai; Sieber, Jan; Young, William R.; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira: Time series analysis and modelling of the freezing of gait phenomenon. , 2022 more…
2021
Böhle, T.; Kuehn, C.; Thalhammer, M.: On the reliable and efficient numerical integration of the Kuramoto model and related dynamical systems on graphs. International Journal of Computer Mathematics 99 (1), 2021, 31-57 more…
Gonzalez Herrero, Maria Elena; Kuehn, Christian; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira: Reduced Models of Cardiomyocytes Excitability: Comparing Karma and FitzHugh–Nagumo. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 83 (8), 2021 more…
Mac Aogáin, Micheál; Narayana, Jayanth Kumar; Tiew, Pei Yee; Ali, Nur A’tikah Binte Mohamed; Yong, Valerie Fei Lee; Jaggi, Tavleen Kaur; Lim, Albert Yick Hou; Keir, Holly R.; Dicker, Alison J.; Thng, Kai Xian; Tsang, Akina; Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius; Poh, Mau Ern; Oriano, Martina; Aliberti, Stefano; Blasi, Francesco; Low, Teck Boon; Ong, Thun How; Oliver, Brian; Giam, Yan Hui; Tee, Augustine; Koh, Mariko Siyue; Abisheganaden, John Arputhan; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira; Chalmers, James D.; Chotirmall, Sanjay H.: Integrative microbiomics in bronchiectasis exacerbations. Nature Medicine 27 (4), 2021, 688-699 more…
Narayana, Jayanth Kumar; Mac Aogáin, Micheál; Goh, Wilson Wen Bin; Xia, Kelin; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira; Chotirmall, Sanjay H.: Mathematical-based microbiome analytics for clinical translation. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 19, 2021, 6272-6281 more…
Prince, Luke Y.; Bacon, Travis; Humphries, Rachel; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira; Clopath, Claudia; Mellor, Jack R.: Separable actions of acetylcholine and noradrenaline on neuronal ensemble formation in hippocampal CA3 circuits. PLOS Computational Biology 17 (10), 2021, e1009435 more…
2020
Baldemir, Harun; Avitabile, Daniele; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira: Pseudo-plateau bursting and mixed-mode oscillations in a model of developing inner hair cells. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 80, 2020, 104979 more…
Creaser, Jennifer; Ashwin, Peter; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira: Sequential Escapes and Synchrony Breaking for Networks of Bistable Oscillatory Nodes. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 19 (4), 2020, 2829-2846 more…
Creaser, Jennifer; Lin, Congping; Ridler, Thomas; Brown, Jonathan T.; D’Souza, Wendyl; Seneviratne, Udaya; Cook, Mark; Terry, John R.; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira: Domino-like transient dynamics at seizure onset in epilepsy. PLOS Computational Biology 16 (9), 2020, e1008206 more…
Herrero, Maria Elena Gonzalez; Kuehn, Christian; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira: Reduced models of cardiomyocytes excitability: comparing Karma and FitzHugh-Nagumo. 2020 more…
Słowiński, Piotr; Al-Ramadhani, Sohaib; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira: Neurologically Motivated Coupling Functions in Models of Motor Coordination. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 19 (1), 2020, 208-232 more…
Zavala, Eder; Voliotis, Margaritis; Zerenner, Tanja; Tabak, Joël; Walker, Jamie J.; Li, Xiao Feng; Terry, John R.; Lightman, Stafford L.; O'Byrne, Kevin; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira: Dynamic Hormone Control of Stress and Fertility. Frontiers in Physiology 11, 2020 more…