WIDER personnel
This provides a list of people associated with the WIDER group, and a brief summary of their research interests:
Academic Staff and Independent Research Fellows
Prof Matt Keeling
Modelling of infectious diseases in humans and animals. Optimal targeting; Spatial spread and Networks; Stochasticity and persistance of infection.
Prof Laura Green
Statistical and mathematical approaches to understanding the biology and control of diseases in farmed animals; translating research into practice.
Dr Deirdre Hollingsworth
Transmission dynamics of HIV stages. Dynamics and control of malaria. Prediction and optimal control of helminth infections.
Dr Orin Courtenay
Field epidemiologist and behavioural ecologist of vector and zoonotic infectious diseases.
Dr Mike Tildesley
Prediction and control of livestock diseases, especially foot-and-mouth and avian influenza.
Prof D. James Nokes
The epidemiology viral pathogens in developing countries, leading to the rational design of control programmes. Determinants of infection dynamics.
Dr Louise Dyson
Multiple aspects of mathematical biology, including insect behaviour, cell mobility and epidemiology.
Dr Simon Spencer
Stochastic models for infectious diseases in humans and animals; Bayesian statistics applied to epidemiology, outbreak detection, model selection and uncertainty.
Dr Lorenzo Pellis
Multi-strain and multi-pathogen systems, HIV, RSV, epidemics on networks and in socially structured populations (age stratification, households, schools, etc.).
Prof Stavros Petrou
Perinatal and paediatric health and methodological concerns surrounding the conduct of economic evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials.
Prof Noel McCarthy
Integrating bacterial population genetics into public health epidemiology; developing and applying epidemiological methods to practical public health problems.
Dr Daniel Franklin
Stochastic simulation modelling of the invasion of novel pest and pathogen species into the English and Welsh honeybee population.
Prof Gareth Roberts
Bayesian Inference, particularly using modern computational statistics techniques such as Markov chain Monte Carlo and Sequential Monte Carlo.
Prof Mark Pallen
Using high-throughput sequencing, genomics and metagenomics, to dissect the behaviour of bacterial infection and colonisation in humans and animals.
Prof Mark Achtman
Epidemiological and sequence data for evaluating the micro-evolution and population structure of pathogenic bacteria, e.g. Salmonella enterica.
Dr Kevin Purdy
How microbial communities form and change temporally and spatially; microbial communities (microbiomes) associated with endemic diseases in farm animals.
Post-Docs and Research Fellows
Dr Ron Crump
Prediction of risk of bovine tuberculosis infection at herd and individual animal levels.
Part of NTD modelling consortium: Statistical models of Leprosy.
Dr Samik Datta
Modelling infections in honeybee populations, and simulating control.
Human infectious diseases, and comparisons of vaccination strategies.
Dr Erin Dilger
Epidemiology and control of vector borne diseases, specifically visceral leishmaniasis. Running and analysing data from a CRCT in Brazil, testing a novel control for VL.
Dr Sam Brand
Modelling spatial spread of infectious diseases; insect vectors; fast epidemic simulation; Stochastic transmission; Optimal control.
Dr Kat Rock
Vector-borne disease modelling; effects of vector senescence and bite rate upon disease transmission.
Part of NTD modelling consortium: modelling HAT (sleeping sickness).
Dr Ed Smith
Population genetics of livestock associated bacteria at the farm and global level. Impact of host genetics and breeding on disease susceptibility.
Dr Lloyd Chapman
Spatial transmission modelling, vector-borne disease modelling.
Part of NTD modelling consortium: mathematical modelling of Visceral Leishmaniasis.
Dr Mike Irvine
Spatial ecology of seagrass, using a variety of mathematical modelling and statistical tools.
Part of NTD modelling consortium: mathematical modelling of Lymphatic Filariasis.
Dr Jolene Atia
Cross-scale modelling of foot-rot in the UK; linking foot-level and population-level dynamics.
Dr Joaquin Prada
Epidemiology of human diseases, including schistosomiasis and measles. Aspects of spatial modelling, risk of introduction and eradication.
Panayiota Touloupou
Modelling the transmission of Escherichia coli O157 in cattle, MCMC inference and model selection.
PhD Students
Peter Dawson
Dynamics and control of foot-and-mouth disease in Turkey. Interaction of multiple pathogen strains. Implications of livestock movements.
Emma Monaghan
Investigating development and composition of a microbial community in the mammary glands of suckler sheep.
Ben Hu
Cross-scale modelling of foot-and-mouth disease. Modelling and control of foot-and-mouth disease in Japan.
Elizabeth Buckingham-Jeffery
Models for gastro-intestinal illness. Syndromic data analysis. Markov Random Field methods.
Holly Borowski
Identify and evaluate barriers to the adoption of best practice (in management of footrot) by sheep farmers.
Rachel Clifton
Investigating the role of Fusobacterium necrophorum in the severity and persistence of footrot in sheep.
Mel Munang
Investigating TB epidemiology in the setting of migration (Birmingham) and how contact tracing impacts on control.
Alex Bishop
Household models of soil-transmitted helminths. Incorporating numerical analysis of large, sparse, stochastic matrices into gradient MCMC methods.
Katherine Broadfoot
Models and data analysis of modern measles outbreaks, using the 2013 Swansea outbreak as a case study.
Past Members
See here for past members of the WIDER centre.