Gesham Magombedze

Biography

Gesham Magombedze is working as Assistant Investigator, Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics. He has completed his Research Associate, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling, Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, UK. Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS). University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. Faculty of Health Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computational Biology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine. University of Cape Town, South Africa. PhD, Applied Mathematics/Mathematical Biology. Department of Applied Mathematics. National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. BSc (Hons) in Applied Mathematics, National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Research Interest

My research focuses on using mathematical, computational and bioinformatics techniques to study pathogens that cause diseases in humans and animals. I seek to understand and explain how these pathogens can cause infections that progress slowly or rapidly depending upon conditions. It is intriguing to understand how the bacteria such as mycobacterial pathogens can enter and exit different states to cause different disease manifestations