Regular biography
Heather Harrington is a Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, within the Department of MATH. Her research interests include applied algebra, chemical reaction network theory, mathematical modeling, topological data analysis, and systems biology. She is affiliated with research groups such as Machine Learning and Data Science, Mathematical Biology, and the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Harrington's work spans topics like topological model selection and the topology of multi-species localization. She has contributed to publications in areas such as combinatorial geometry and persistent homology. Her academic profile can be accessed at https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/heather.harrington.
Scholar-generated biography
Heather A Harrington is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, TUD and Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. Her work focuses on mathematical modeling, systems biology, applied algebraic geometry, networks, and topological data. She explores the application of topological data analysis to understand complex biological systems, including contagion processes on networks and immune cell spatial patterns in tumors. Her research also involves algebraic systems biology, such as modeling the Wnt pathway and analyzing the role of crosstalk hubs in Notch-Wnt interactions. Harrington's contributions span computational methods for persistent homology and their use in biomedical applications.