Homepage of Raouf El Cheikh

email: elcheikh@math.univ-lyon1.fr
Tel: +33 4 72 43 11 89

Adress: Institut Camille Jordan
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918
69622 Villeurbanne cedex
France

Ph.D in Applied Mathematics: University of Lyon1 and INRIA (team Dracula).
My thesis is about the regulation of the cell cycle by the circadian clock with application to chronotherapy of cancer
Thesis advisors: Samuel Bernard and Vitaly Volpert.

Research Interests

Mathematical biology: circadian clock, cell cycle, tumor growth, population dynamics, chronotherapy of cancer.

Radiative heat transfer, glass creep.

Numerical simulations: Matlab, Scilab, C/C++, Abaqus.

Publications

Published:

R. El Cheikh, S. Bernard and N. El Khatib, Modeling circadian clock-cell cycle interaction effects on cell population growth rates, J Theor Biol, 363:318-331 (2014).
R. El Cheikh, T. Lepoutre and S. Bernard. Modeling Biological Rhythms in Cell Populations. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena / Volume 7 / Issue 06 / 2012, pp 107 - 125.pdf
Luc Paquet, Raouf El Cheikh, Dominique Lochegnies and Norbert Siedow. Radiative Heating of a Glass Plate. MathematicS in Actions. Vol.5 no.1 (2012), p. 1-30.pdf

Submitted:

Geoffrey D. Clapp, Thomas Lepoutre, Raouf El Cheikh, Samuel Bernard, Jérémy Ruby, Hélène Labussière-Wallet, Franck E. Nicolini, Doron Levy, BCR-ABL transcripts variations in chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia patients on imatinib: Possible role of the autologous immune system.

Work in progress:

R. El Cheikh, S. Bernard and N. El khatib: A particle method for high-dimensional transport equations.
S. Bernard, R. El Cheikh, H. Huttner, O. Bergmann and J. Frisèn. A mathematical model to estimate the age of meningioma.

Teaching

September 2014 - Current: Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Ecully, France.
Teaching assistant: ATER (Attache Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche).

Numerical analysis: finite difference method, numerical methods for linear and non-linear systems: Gauss, LU factorization, Jacobi and Gauss Seidel, Newton, least squares.
Applied analysis: notions of topology, convergence, continuity, Lebesgue integration, Fourier transform, ordinary differential equations.
Optimization: constrained and unconstrained optimization, convex analysis, optimality conditions, gradient methods.

2013 - 2014: Lycee Jean Perrin, Lyon, France.
Oral examination sessions (Colles): Exams include topics from calculus and linear algebra for second year engineering students (Classe preparatoire MP, PC).