Part A. PERSONAL INFORMATION
First and Family name / Maria Conceicao SerraSocial Security, Passport, ID number / Passport nº N075681 (PRT) / Age / 42
Researcher numbers / Researcher ID
Orcid code
A.1. Current position
Name of University/Institution / Minho UniversityDepartment / Centre of Mathematics
Address and Country / Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga
Phone number / +351253604340 / E-mail /
Current position / Professor Auxiliar / From / 11/12/2007
Espec. cód. UNESCO / 120806
Palabras clave / Branching processes
A.2. Education
PhD / University / YearPhD in Mathematical Statistics / Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) / 2007
Master in Probabilty and Statistics / Lisbon University (Portugal) / 2001
Applied Mathematics (Undergraduate studies) / Coimbra University / 1997
A.3. JCR articles, h Index, thesis supervised…
- Co-supervisor of a project developed under the BII-FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) scholarship program, dedicated to branching processes (2009)
- Supervisor of a master thesis at the MSc program in Statistics and Systems (Minho University, Portugal) (2010/2011)
- Scientific supervisor of 4 trainee periods developed in portuguese institutions and/or companies: ILCH (Minho University) (2011), Tempo Livre Guimarães (Guimarães Municipality, Portugal) (2011), BOSCH (2012) and SONAE (2015). Each trainee period has a total duration of 4 months: 3 are spent at the institution/company developing the project and 1 month is dedicated to writing a report, which has to be presented and defended in a public disputation.
Part B. CV SUMMARY (max. 3500 characters, including spaces)
Part C. RELEVANT MERITS
C.1. Publications (including books)
Serra MC. "On the waiting time to escape". Journal of Applied Probability, 43(1) (2006), 296-302
Serra MC, Haccou P. "Dynamics of escape mutants". Theoretical Population Biology, 72(1) (2007), 167-178
Sagitov S, Serra MC. "Multitype Bienaymé-Galton-Watson processes escaping extinction", Advances in Applied Probability, 41(2009), 225-246
Ghosh A, Serra MC, Haccou P. "Quantifying time-inhomogeneous stochastic introgression processes with hazard rates". TheoreticalPopulation Biology, 81 (4) (2012), 253-263.
Ghosh A, Serra MC, Haccou P. "Quantifying stochastic introgression processes in random environments with hazard rates”, Theoretical Population Biology 100 (2015), 1-5
Sagitov S, Serra MC. "Skeletons of near-critical Bienaymé-Galton-Watson processes". Advances in Applied Probability, 47,(2)(2015), 530-544.
C.2. Research projects and grants
Individual grants from FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology):
- PhD Grant (2004-2006)
- Post Doctoral Grant (March 2009- August 2009)
-Sabbatical Leave Grant (three months 2014-2015)
C.3. Contracts
C.4. Patents
C.5, C.6, C.7… (e. g., Institutional responsibilities, memberships of scientific societies…)
- Principal Researcher of the Statistics and Applied Probability research group of CMAT (Centre of Mathematics of Minho University), January 2010- January 2012
-Member of the Scientific Council of the ECUM (School of Sciences of Minho University), since February 2012.
- Member of SPE (Portuguese Statistical Society)
- Member of SPM (Portuguese Mathematical Society)
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