Author Archives: tamsinelee

Unknown's avatar

About tamsinelee

A creative mathematician

When you know, you know

A career in academia is undoubtedly engulfing. Is that bad? I mean, research is great! There’s moments when I’m in the zone. I feel that I have the time to learn (or I’m learning efficiently, and then I feel oh … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

International Women’s Day

  This year, I did something that I wouldn’t have foreseen myself doing. And that’s quite a thrill! Let’s start aaall the way back at the beginning… My Mum and older (and only) sister are dyslexic to quite a high … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Life in colour

I like to make short films about my work. I like it, but I don’t really know what I’m doing. Two weekends ago I spent 72 hours taking part in the Exposure Science Hackathon. It was intense. Tamsin the team … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Sharing is caring

tamsin.lee@swisstph.ch | tamsin.e.lee@gmail.com | @t_e_lee We could all share more. I especially could share my food more! I get over excited and scoffle scoffle scoffle. Only once there’s mere mere crumbs left does my mind return to the room, and … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Rhinos and unexpected collaborations

I’m very happy to announce the publication of a paper I thoroughly enjoyed working on: An evolutionary game theoretic model of rhino horn devaluation. Nikoleta E. Glynatsi, Vincent Knight & Tamsin E. Lee Ecological Modelling The paper itself is nicely … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

DO IT!

I know this looks like some impressive GitHub activity. I wish I was that active on GitHub! This is actually part of a project that I have with some friends, where every month we create a piece of art based … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

From electricity to malaria

In January I joined the exciting world of malaria modelling at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. I’m working with Prof. Melissa Penny to model what drives resistance to malaria treatment. To go from modelling electricity usage from Smart … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

The thin blue line

Let’s get angry! The world has many things wrong with it, and often we’re so moved that we make a placard and hit the streets. And protests have proven to be very effective, from Gandhi’s salt march in 1930, to … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The drugs don’t work

Three weeks ago we took in a beautiful rescue dog from Romania. I’ve wanted a dog for a long time and promised myself that it would happen when I got a permanent job. As Sara Pascoe said in a show … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Heart healer revealer

How much time is needed to get over someone? To answer that question, we need a tool that reveals the healing process of the heart: a broken heart barometer! So I offer such a tool in the form of this … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment