Faculty & Staff Member Profile

Dr. Danish A. Ahmed is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST), Kuwait, and a member of the Center for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics (CAMB). He holds an MSci in Mathematics from Imperial College London and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Leicester, UK. His research bridges mathematics and ecology, focusing on population dynamics, animal movement, biological invasions, and ecological modelling. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals such as Global Change Biology, BioScience, and Biological Reviews, and has secured competitive funding from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) and GUST. Dr. Ahmed collaborates internationally with groups including the Mathematical Ecology Research Group (University of Oxford) and the InvaCost consortium (Université Paris-Saclay), and has presented invited talks at leading conferences worldwide, including the European Congress of Entomology (ECE) and the European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology (ECMTB). His work has been featured in media outlets including The Guardian, Phys.org, and Kuwait Times. He serves as Editor for Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Movement Ecology and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. At GUST, he teaches undergraduate courses ranging from core subjects such as calculus, algebra, probability and statistics to advanced topics including numerical analysis and differential equations.