I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow (UK), where I do research on the dynamics of infectious diseases. My research aims to bring ecological theory into malaria vector control programmes, find ways to determine who infects who in multi-host disease systems and how to best prevent, control and eliminate infectious diseases from humans and animals.

As a quantitative ecologist I am interested in developing Bayesian statistical methodologies supporting the integration of multiple sources of information (e.g. serology, incidence, genetic surveillance, intervention, and movement), into mechanistic models that can accurately reconstruct vector and disease dynamics of complex epidemiological systems, and determine how interventions change those dynamics. Luckily, surveillance programs, public health systems and long-term research projects are collecting unprecedented amounts of epidemiological, genomic and ecological data, which will probably keep me busy for a long time.

How to harness ecological processes
to accelerate malaria vector elimination

Dynamical consequences of intervention
to prevent cross-species transmission

Make the most of weak and
complex data