Peter Ballard previously worked as an electronic engineer, and has more than two decades' experience in the design, modelling and simulation of electronic circuits. Since 2014, he has been doing a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include mathematical epidemiology, stochastic modelling (in particular the SIR infection model and related models) and stochastic decision processes.
Ballard, P. G., Bean N. G., & Ross J. V.
(2016). The probability of epidemic fade-out is non-monotonic in transmission rate for the Markovian SIR model with demography. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 393, 170-178. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.01.012
