Contact Information

Full Name:
Alethea Barbaro
Phonetic Pronunciation:
Alethea: uh-LEE-thee-uh [soft "th"] Barbaro: BAR-buh-roe
Affiliation:

Delft Technology Fellow and Associate Professor

Mathematical Physics Group

Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science

Delft University of Technology

The Netherlands

Alethea Barbaro

Research Interests

My research focuses on mathematical models, generally of social organisms, from the perspective of kinetic theory. At the discrete level, I design and implement interacting particle and agent-based models. I use these models in the context of fish migration, human gang rivalries, gang territorial development, pedestrian dynamics, and mathematical oncology. I am interested in the kinetic and hydrodynamic limits of this type of model, especially if the model undergoes a phase transition as parameters are varied. I study these phase transitions at the microscopic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic scales.

Publications

Students

Current PhD Students:

Laura Jansen-Storbacka (co-supervisor), PhD student at the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management (TU Delft), expected 2027
Deepanjali Prasad (supervisor), PhD Student in Applied Mathematics

Former PhD Students:

Lindsay Lee (advisor), PhD student in Applied Mathematics (CWRU), August 2020
Robert Volkin (advisor), PhD in Applied Mathematics (CWRU), December 2019
Abdulaziz Alsenafi (advisor), PhD in Applied Mathematics (CWRU), August 2016
Douglas Brubaker (co-mentor and committee member), PhD in Proteomics and Bioinformatics (CWRU), May 2016

Former Masters Students:

Rosalie Althuis (co-supervisor), MS in Applied Mathematics (TU Delft), October 2024
Alessandro Zuliani (TU Delft supervisor), MS in Applied Mathematics (TU Delft), September 2024
Carrie Winterer (co-advisor), MS in Statistics (CWRU), August 2018