Steering committee

Gaël is a researcher in epidemiology, specialized in epidemiological modelling and likelihood-free inference, at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment - INRAE. His work aims to unravel the complexity of the mechanisms underlying the spread of infectious diseases at different scales, using mathematical models and computer simulations.

Quirine ten Bosch

Quirine is a Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology working in the Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiology group at Wageningen University. She uses data-driven statistical and mathematical modeling approaches to better understand how pathogens spread in populations. She has a specific interest in the spread and control of vector-borne diseases.

Hélène is a researcher in epidemiology and mathematical modeling at the French National Research Insitute for Agriculture, Food and Environment - INRAE. She’s primarily interested in the contribution of hosts and vectors to the spread of vector-borne, zoonotic diseases. She develops mechanistic and phenomenological models to answer questions at different scales : from countrywide risk mapping to within-host/vector viral dynamics and immune response.

Katharine R. Dean

Katharine is a researcher in epidemiology at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute. She specializes in using mathematical models to understand the spread of pathogens in aquaculture and livestock systems. Her main interest lies in integrating predictive models with near-real-time data to target surveillance and control measures during disease outbreaks.

Pauline Ezanno

Pauline is a senior researcher at INRAE, in BIOEPAR unit (Nantes, France), working in epidemiological modelling and population dynamics. She aims at better understanding, anticipating and controlling the multi-scale spread of pathogens and the spatio-temporal dynamics of vector-host interactions in animal populations.

Dr. Egil A.J. Fischer is an Associate Professor of Veterinary Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University. His research and teaching focus on understanding the spread of infectious diseases and antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in animal populations, particularly livestock. He places emphasis on integrating experimental research and quantitative modelling to develop comprehensive insight.

Rowland R. Kao

Rowland is professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Data Science at University of Edinburgh. He trained as a physicist and his research interests include disease ecology, epidemiology, social network analysis, and statistical inference and on process models, including the exploitation of very large datasets to understand and control infectious diseases.

Andrei Mihalca

Jana Schulz

Jana focuses on mathematical models and investigates the spread, surveillance and control of animal diseases. She concentrates particularly on analyzing the impact of different transmission routes on the course of disease and on assessing the effectiveness of current and potential surveillance and control measures.

Timothée Vergne is an associate professor of veterinary public health at the National Veterinary School of Toulouse, and leads the epidemiology lab of the IHAP research unit. Tim’s primary research interests include the understanding of detection and transmission processes of infectious diseases of humans and animals using statistical and mathematical modelling tools, in order to optimize the way infectious diseases are managed.