Luís Neves de Almeida
CNRS Research Director (Directeur de Recherche)

Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions
Sorbonne Université
4 place Jussieu, F75005 PARIS, FRANCE
Access to LJLL
e-mail : luis (at) ann.jussieu.fr
Office 321,Tower 16-26, 3rd floor,
Tél : +33 1 44 27 91 70
Member of the INRIA team MAMBA
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3344-0366
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fFOWkGoAAAAJ&hl=fr
Main research interests:
- Partial Differential Equations (PDE) in Mathematical Physics and
Geometry.
- Mathematical modeling of morphogenesis and tissue repair.
- Mathematical study of population dynamics and movement.
- Mathematical models for tumor growth and therapy.
- Mathematical epidemiology and in particular models for vector
population dynamics and control of vector borne diseases.
Events:
Teaching in 2020:
- Mathematical
modeling
of tissue and tumor growth, January to April 2020, Master 2
Mathématiques de la modélisation, Sorbonne Université.
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Mathematical methods in biology, October to December 2020, Master 2
Mathématiques de la modélisation, Sorbonne Université.
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Master 2 internship: Maximilien Lordon (Ecole Polytechnique)
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Master 1 internships: Ivan Brossollet (Ecole Normale Supérieure),
Madeleine Kubasch (Sorbonne Université)
Present and recent scientific administration activities:
- Together with B. Perthame, we are at the origin of the proposal of a
one trimester program at IHP on Mathematical
modeling
of organization in living matter. January to April
2022 (co-organized with V. Calvez, M. Doumic, B. Perthame and P.
Reynaud-Bouret).
- Head of French partner in the Hubert Curien program Pessoa Project Mathematical
models for mosquito population dynamics and applications to control of
vector-borne diseases (since January 2020).
- Head of Mathematical group in the World Health Organization
TDR/IAEA project {\it PAcific Islands Consortium for the Evaluation of
Aedes SIT (PAC-SIT)} (since 2020).
- Head of the sustainable laboratory committee of the LJLL since 2019.
- Head of the LJLL partner in the Moglimaging project of the Cancer Plan
program Heterogeneity of Tumors and Environment since 2016.
- Associate editor of the Journal of dynamics & games.
- Head of the PICS CNRS Royal Society Equations structurées pour la
co-évolution de populations cellulaires (2017-2019).
- Member of the Interdisciplinary committee CID 51 of the Comité
National de la Recherche Scientifique 2013-2016.
- Person in charge of the Mathématiques Appliquées aux Sciences
Biologiques et Biomédicales Master 2 program of Sorbonne Université
since 2012.
- Organiser of the Mathématiques pour la Biologie et la Santé seminar at
Sorbonne Université since 2012.
- Head of the Programme Hubert Curien Pessoa project Formation and
contraction of actin structures in epithelial wound healing.
- Head of the Programme Hubert Curien Galileo project Etude mathématique
et modélisation de la fermeture de trous épithéliaux.
Selected Publications:
Optimal releases for population
replacement strategies: Application to Wolbachia. L. Almeida, Y.
Privat, M. Strugarek, N. Vauchelet, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
(2019). doi: 10.1080/17513758.2019.1593524.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17513758.2019.1593524
Traveling Pulses for a Two-Species
Chemotaxis Model. Emako C, Gayrard C, Buguin A, Neves de Almeida L,
Vauchelet N, PLoS Comput Biol. (2016) 12(4): e1004843.
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004843.
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004843
Gap geometry dictates epithelial
closure efficiency, A. Ravasio, I. Cheddadi, T. Chen, T. Pereira,
H.T. Ong, C. Bertocchi, A. Brugues, A. Jacinto, A.J. Kabla, Y. Toyama, X.
Trepat, N. Gov, L. Neves de Almeida and B. Ladoux, Nature Commun. (2015),
10.1038/ncomms8683. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150709/ncomms8683/full/ncomms8683.html
Emergence of Drug Tolerance in Cancer Cell
Populations: An Evolutionary Outcome of Selection, Nongenetic Instability,
and Stress-Induced Adaptation, R.H. Chisholm, T. Lorenzi, A. Lorz,
A.K. Larsen, L. Neves de Almeida, A. Escargueil, and J. Clairambault
Cancer Res. March 15, 2015 75:930-939; Published OnlineFirst January 27,
2015; doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-2103
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/75/6/930.full?sid=7f0082c9-81ba-4692-a117-14b52a39f8d3
Mechanics of epithelial closure over
non-adherent environments, SRK Vedula, G. Peyret, I. Cheddadi, T.
Chen, A. Brugués, H. Hirata, H. Lopez-Menendez, Y. Toyama, L. Neves de
Almeida, X. Trepat, CT Lim and B. Ladoux, Nature Commun. (2015),
10.1038/ncomms7111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7111.
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150122/ncomms7111/full/ncomms7111.html
Topological methods for the
Ginzburg-Landau equations. L. Almeida, F. Bethuel, J. Math. Pures
Appli. 77, 1-49. (1998).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021782498800640