ProfessorBarbara Holland
Professor
Mathematics
Orcid identifier0000-0002-4628-7938 (opens in a new tab)
- ProfessorMathematics
- +61 3 6226 1990 (Work)
- School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, 460 Maths-Physics Building, Sandy Bay Campus, TAS
SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy
Teaching
Statistics, Operations Research, Phylogenetics
Teaching expertise
At the undergraduate level Barbara teaches mostly in Statistics.
Teaching responsibility
Mathematics discipline
KMA153 - Data Handling and Statistics 1 (Unit coordinator, Semester 1)
KMA253 - Data Handling and Statistics 2 (Unit coordinator, Semester 2)
KMA457 - Advanced Topics in Mathematical Biology (Contributor, occasionally coordinator)
HPH106 – Good thinking: Reasoning skills for Life (Breadth unit, co-taught with Philosophy)
BEA140 - Data Analysis for Business (Contributor)
Research Supervision
Barbara has supervised (or co-supervised) 17 PhD students to successful completion of their doctorates. Many of her students have gone onto jobs in academia and postdoctoral positions around the globe. She is current supervising (or co-supervising) 6 PhD students. She is always on the lookout for students with a combination of mathematical and computing skills and a passion for problems in biology.
Statistics, Operations Research, Phylogenetics
Teaching expertise
At the undergraduate level Barbara teaches mostly in Statistics.
Teaching responsibility
Mathematics discipline
KMA153 - Data Handling and Statistics 1 (Unit coordinator, Semester 1)
KMA253 - Data Handling and Statistics 2 (Unit coordinator, Semester 2)
KMA457 - Advanced Topics in Mathematical Biology (Contributor, occasionally coordinator)
HPH106 – Good thinking: Reasoning skills for Life (Breadth unit, co-taught with Philosophy)
BEA140 - Data Analysis for Business (Contributor)
Research Supervision
Barbara has supervised (or co-supervised) 17 PhD students to successful completion of their doctorates. Many of her students have gone onto jobs in academia and postdoctoral positions around the globe. She is current supervising (or co-supervising) 6 PhD students. She is always on the lookout for students with a combination of mathematical and computing skills and a passion for problems in biology.
SUPERVISION & TEACHING
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFaster phylogenetics1 Jul 2026
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMarkov-modulated processes across discrete and continuous state spaces26 Feb 2025
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONNovel signals in nutrient acquisition: Discovering novel signals in plant nutrient acquisition strategies19 Aug 2024
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONIntegrative genomic models for Eucalyptus globulus breeding13 Apr 2023
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONNew statistical methods for PhyloG2P24 Jan 2023
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONStochastic Models for the Conservation of Endangered Species9 Jan 2023
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONHomology detection, alignment and ancestral state reconstruction of genetic networks14 Jul 2021
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONModel Selection and Goodness of Fit in Molecular Phylogenetics29 Nov 2019
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMathematical Models for the Evolution of Species1 Aug 2019 - 14 Dec 2023
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMechanistic Markov Models for the Evolution of Gene Families17 Sep 2018 - 28 Apr 2023
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONStochastic Modelling of Patient Flow in Hospitals1 Feb 2018 - 22 Aug 2023
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONOld Plants, New Tricks: Machine learning and the conifer fossil record10 Jan 2018 - 3 May 2022
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONGraded Rings of Markov Invariants31 Aug 2017 - 18 Dec 2024
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONProtein Structure and Evolution27 Feb 2017 - 13 Aug 2021
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONRate Matrices: A bridge between molecular biology and linear algebra. Two way traffic between evolutionary sequence analysis and novel mathematical frameworks5 Sep 2016 - 28 Apr 2023
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMarkov Models for the Evolution of Duplicate Genes, and Microsatellites4 Feb 2014 - 11 Aug 2018
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONStats, Drugs and Rock and Roll: Statistical applications to temporally autocorrelated substance use data8 Nov 2011 - 18 Dec 2017
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDistinguishing Convergence on Phylogenetic Networks21 Mar 2011 - 12 Aug 2016
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDemographic history of the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) from Pleistocene to present28 Jun 2010 - 14 Aug 2015