The Disease Dynamics research group at the

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About
The Research Team

• The Disease Dynamics research group at the
• Department of Applied Mathematics and
• Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of
• Cambridge is headed by Dr Julia Gog and
• specialises in the mathematics of infectious
• diseases. It is also a part of the Cambridge
• Infectious Diseases Consortium.
• The research team and the Motivate team are
  available by phone or email if further
  information or support is required.

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Dr Julia Gog is a lecturer in Applied Mathematics
and Fellow of Queens' College at the University
of Cambridge. She is also a Royal Society
University Research Fellow. I apply mathematics
to help understand infectious disease. Mainly
this is by developing and exploring dynamical
models, but I also have some interest in
bioinformatics. A particular theme running
through my work is bridging across different
scales (be they temporal, spatial or
antigenic)...influenza has been a long-standing
interest.
Dr Ken Eames is a Lecturer at the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. My research
concerns the mathematical modelling and
epidemiology of human infectious diseases
spreading through social networks. Measuring
these networks is hard - often, it's not even
clear which interactions a network should include
- so I develop methods that don't require the
complete network to be known. I also work on
innovative ways to measure networks, particularly
those involving important population subgroups
such as school children. Recently I have been
running national surveillance systems to measure
the impact of the swine flu pandemic, looking at
health-care seeking behaviour and changes in
social activity as a result of infection.
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Dr Andrew Conlan is a Research Associate with
Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium whose
research interests include the persistence of
infectious disease and the link between
transmission mechanisms and epidemiological data.
He has an interest in Childhood Infectious
Diseases, Campylobacter jejuni and Bovine
Tuberculosis.
Dr Joshua Ross is a Junior Research Fellow
(King's College) at the University of Cambridge.
I am a Mathematical Biologist specialising in
stochastic (random/probabilistic) ecological and
epidemiological modelling. I am particularly
interested in the role of stochasticity in
population and disease dynamics and control, and
in developing methodology that allows the
application of stochastic models to environmental
and epidemiological decision making.
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Dr Roberto Saenz is a Research Associate at the
University of Cambridge . His overall goal is to
use mathematics as a tool to understand and solve
problems related to infectious diseases. His
current research is on mathematical models for
the spread of the influenza virus within an
infected host. The effect of innate immunity,
adaptive immunity, spatial infection
distribution, etc. are being evaluated as control
mechanisms of infection.
Johann von Kirchbach is a PhD student at the
University of Cambridge. My research is mainly
about the influenza virus. In particular I try to
use mathematical models in order go gain a better
understanding of the way the virus works inside
the human cell and the mechanisms by which it
multiplies and spreads.