I have joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling in November 2010, as a research associate and I am also part of the Evolutionary Epidemiology research group led by Professor Christophe Fraser.

My research focuses on modelling the heterogeneity and temporal variability in infectious diseases transmission. Quantifying the heterogeneity in disease transmission is a fundamental step towards targeted control measures, and quantifying the temporal pattern of the risk of infection allows to assess the efficiency of those control measure,s either from real data, or from simulated ones.

So far, I have mainly been working on directly transmitted diseases such as SARS and flu. However, I am interested in providing generic mathematical methods to help designing control measures in case of epidemics, disregarding the pathogen causing the epidemic.

My research essentially involves estimation techniques for complex models in a Bayesian framework, typically Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) estimation, with data augmentation when necessary, and simulations.

I am co-organizing our 2 week course on Mathematical Models of the Epidemiology & Control of Infectious Diseases.