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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University. My group are part of the Mathematics, Genomics and Prediction in Infection and Evolution (MAGPIE) research group, and I am a member of The Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society (PIPPS). My research is primarily in infectious disease modelling and genomic epidemiology. I am interested in developing modelling methods that help us understand disease transmission and its population context, using tools from across math and statistics, and particularly using pathogen genomic data. For the last few years, I have been working on response to the COVID-19 pandemic in BC and further afield, and more recently in modelling and data analytics for healthcare and health services.
Originally from the UK, I received an MMath in Mathematics from the University of Nottingham, where I also completed my PhD working on computional Bayesian methods for stochastic epidemic models. I moved to SFU in 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Caroline Colijn, before beginning my faculty position in 2022. Since 2020, I have taught the course 'Reconstructing Transmission with Genomic Data' alongside C. Colijn at the Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID), originally at the University of Washington and at Emory University since 2024. Outside of research I enjoy hiking, vegetarian food, and skiing (badly!).
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