Over the last years my group has gained expertise in setting up dedicated spatially explicit models for describing infecituous disease dynamics, species interaction, growth of organisms, and so on. The development of such models has been largely question driven. Parallel to this development we have been trying to gain further insights in methods and techniques to assess the behaviour of such spatially explicit models.

The goal of this project is to consolidate these interlaced research lines, by providing the means that are required to involve a PhD student working on the interface between them. Currently, we anticipate to use these additional funds to strengthen the efforts spent to the development of a spatiialy explicit model for dengue in Cuba in collaboration with the Antwerp Tropical Institute of Medicin.