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Dr Geoff Mercer BSc (Hons), PhD Adel Current Position: Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 8595 F: +61 2 6125 0740 Email

Research Interests

• Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases

• Dengue fever: impacts of vector control, climate change effects on the spread, transmission through blood transfusion

• Pandemic influenza

• Spatially dependent disease spread models
  

Selected Recent Publications

Mercer GN, Tyson AH. Modelling the cryogenic treatment of warts and recommendations for changes to current clinical practice. The ANZIAM Journal. 2009 in press.

Rowe MP, Sidhu HS, Mercer GN. Military aviation applications for a springs and masses safest path determining model.  Journal of Battlefield Technology. 2009. in press.

Mercer G N, Sidhu HS. Phase change benefits for firefighters under extreme conditions. Chemical Product and Process Modeling.  2009 in press.

Merce GN, Sweatman WL, Forster WA. A model for crop spray adhesion, bounce and shatter at a leaf surface. Proceedings of the European Consortium for Industrial Mathematics 2008.  2009 in press.

Hickson R, Barry SI, Mercer GN. Effective diffusivities and time lag through multiple layers. The ANZIAM Journal. 2009; 50:C682-C695.

Gubernov VV, Kolobov AV, Polezhaev AA, Sidhu HS, Mercer GN. Pulsating instabilities of combustion waves in a chain-branching reaction model. International Journal on Bifurcation and Chaos. 2009 in press.

Mercer GN, Wilkins A, Crook J, Barry SI, Fowler A. The shelf life of wine. Proceedings of the 2008 Mathematics in Industry Study Group, eds Marchant TR, Edwards M, Mercer GN. 2009:102-125.

Mercer GN, Barry SI, Marlow DO, Kilby P. Investigating the effect of detection and classification range and aircraft dynamics on a simplified maritime surveillance scenario. The ANZIAM Journal. (E.), 2008;49:C475-C492. http://anziamj.austms.org.au/ojs/index.php/ANZIAMJ/article/view/341

Caunce JF, Barry SI, Mercer G.N. A spatially dependent model for washing wool. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2008;32:389-404. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2006.12.010

Mercer GN. A simple diffusion model of the effect of droplet size and spread area on foliar uptake of hydrophilic compounds. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 2007; 88:128-133. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pestbp.2006.10.004