Manalebish Debalike Asfaw is an assistant professor in the department of Mathematics at Addis Ababa University. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Addis Ababa University with first-class honour in December 2018. In her dissertation, a novel modelling approach which takes into account both the spatial and temporal effect in the analysis of plant herbivore interactions was used and analysed.
She is a co-investigator of the “Assessing the Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on the dynamics of COVID-19: A mathematical modelling study in the case of Ethiopia” project funded by Horn of Africa with work experience at two different higher education institutions in Ethiopia as an instructor.
Selected Publications
- Asfaw, M. D., Kassa, S. M., Lungu, E. M., & Bewket, W. (2019). Effects of temperature and rainfall in plant–herbivore interactions at different altitude. Ecological Modelling, 406, 50-59.
- Asfaw, M. D., Kassa, S. M., & Lungu, E. M. (2019). Stochastic plant–herbivore interaction model with Allee effect. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 79(6-7), 2183-2209.
- Asfaw, M. D., Kassa, S. M., & Lungu, E. M. (2018). Co-existence thresholds in the dynamics of the plant–herbivore interaction with Allee effect and harvest. International Journal of Biomathematics, 11(04), 1850057.
- Asfaw, M. D., Buonomo, B., & Kassa, S. M. (2018). Impact of human behavior on ITNs control strategies to prevent the spread of vector borne diseases. Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti-Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, 96(S3), 2.