Dr Anastasia Sofroniou
Dr Anastasia Sofroniou is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) and MSc Mathematics and Statistics. She received her BSc Mathematics with Economics from University College London, an Interdisciplinary MSc in Mathematics from Kings College London and Imperial College London, a certificate course in Data Analysis for Management from London School of Economics and Political Science and her PhD in Applied Mathematics from University College London.
During her research studies, she was awarded the Andrew Rosen Prize for research excellence in Applied Mathematics and twice, the Lighthill Scholarship Award in Mathematics. Her research interests lie within the field of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos and more recently she has been active in Educational Mathematics.
She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), and a member of the London Mathematical Society and The Mathematical Association.
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Qualifications
PhD Applied Mathematics (University College London), MSc Mathematics (King’s College London, Imperial College London), PGCE (University of West London), BSc Mathematics with Economics (University College London)
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Memberships
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics (FIMA)The Mathematical Association (MA)London Mathematical Society (LMS)Cyprus Mathematical Society (CMS)
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Research and publications
Doctoral thesis
Sofroniou A. (2006) The Parametrically Excited Pendulum system with applications to ship dynamics.
Journal and conference articles
Sofroniou A. & Poutos K., (2016) Investigating the Effectiveness of Group Work in Mathematics. Education Sciences; 6(3):30.
Tovi. S., Goodchild. C., Jahromi., A., Sofroniou. A. (2016) A Review of the Span-to- depth ratio methods of design. Accepted, fib Conference.
Sofroniou A, Bishop S. (2014) Dynamics of a Parametrically Excited System with Two Forcing Terms, Journal of Mathematics Vol. 2(3), pp. 172-195.
Sofroniou A, Bishop S. (2014) Water Scarcity in Cyprus: A Review and Call for Integrated Policy, Journal of Water Vol. 6(10), pp. 2898-2928.
Sofroniou, A. & Bishop, S.R. (2006) Breaking the symmetry of the Parametrically Excited Pendulum. Journal of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals Vol. 28(3): 673-681.
Bishop, S.R., Sofroniou, A. & Shi, P. (2005) Symmetry-Breaking in the response of the parametrically excited pendulum model. Journal of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals Vol. 25: 257-264.
Other
Sofroniou, A. (2010) Η Κύπρος θα οδηγήσει τον τρόπο διαχείρισης των υδάτινων πόρων - Politis Newspaper.
Sofroniou, A. (2010) Global Systems Dynamics and Policies in Cyprus: Water Scarcity in Cyprus: Water resource management approach. GSD Project Periodic Report 2 (Appendix).
Sofroniou, A. (2009) Development of the UNIC e-course, Intermediate Algebra (MATH-105) using Learning Activity Management System.
Sofroniou, A. (2009) Global Systems Dynamics and Policies in Cyprus. GSD Project Periodic Report (Appendix): 1-12.
