Rachel Seibel
I am a final-year PhD student in the Mathematics for Real-World Systems CDTLink opens in a new window. I am interested in how human behaviour influences pathogen dynamics during disease outbreaks.
Research Interests
- Behavioural epidemiology
- Mathematical modelling of disease
- Infectious disease interventions
- Pathogen dynamics
- Plant pathology
Publications
- Marjani M, Cohnstaedt LW, Contina JB, Jones C, Moon SA, Seibel RL, Tildesley MJ, Scoglio CM, and Mundt CC. (2026). Comparison of structurally diverse simulation models for prediction of epidemic outcomes caused by a long-distance dispersed pathogen. Ecological Modeling 515: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2026.111539Link opens in a new window.
- Seibel RL, Tildesley MJ, and Hill EM. (2025). Unifying human infectious disease models and real-time awareness of population- and subpopulation-level intervention effectiveness. Royal Society Open Science 12: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241964.Link opens in a new window
- Contina JB, Seibel RL, Chaulagain B, Mills K, Tildesley MJ, and Mundt CC. (2024). The influence of farm connectedness on foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in livestock. Ecosphere 15: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70124Link opens in a new window.
- Seibel RL, Meadows A, Mundt CC, and Tildesley MJ. (2024). Modeling target-density-based cull strategies to contain foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks. PeerJ 12:e16998 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16998Link opens in a new window.
- Chaulagain B, Contina JB, Mills K, Seibel RL, and Mundt CC. (2022). Comparing the efficacy of control strategies for infectious disease outbreaks using field and simulation studies. Ecological Applications 32:e2631 https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2631Link opens in a new window.
Research
- Behavioural epidemiology: I completed my MSc Individual Project on Unifying real-time information awareness and infectious disease models with supervisors Dr Ed HillLink opens in a new window and Professor Mike TildesleyLink opens in a new window (2022).
- Modelling COVID-19: In a group project, I worked on modelling SARS-CoV-2 in university settings with supervisor Professor Mike TildesleyLink opens in a new window (2022).
- Zoonotic disease: I collaborated with Professor Mike TildesleyLink opens in a new window on modelling density-based intervention strategies in foot-and-mouth disease (2019-2021).
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Plant pathology: I worked with Professor Christopher MundtLink opens in a new window at Oregon State University on modelling wheat stripe rust dynamics in Oregon (2019-2021).
- Plant metapopulation structure: With Dr Carrie WuLink opens in a new window at the University of Richmond, I studied the metapopulation structure of Mimulus tilingii in Colorado, USA (2017-2019).
- Healthcare epidemiology: With Dr Lester CaudillLink opens in a new window at the University of Richmond, I investigated the bacterial dynamics of Clostridioides difficile in the human colon (2016-2019).
Teaching
- Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Big Data AnalyticsLink opens in a new window module taught by Suzy MoatLink opens in a new window and Tobias PreisLink opens in a new window
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP)Link opens in a new window
- Data Science module taught by Paul JenkinsLink opens in a new window
- Epidemiological Modelling module taught by Mike TildesleyLink opens in a new window
Education
- MSc in Mathematics of Systems. University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom (September 2021 - September 2022).
- BSc in Biology with minors in Mathematics and Music. University of Richmond, Virginia, USA (August 2015 - May 2019).
Rachel.Seibel@warwick.ac.uk