I am an infectious disease modeller and genomic epidemiologist based in Seattle, WA. I’m currently finishing a postdoc in the Bedford Lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. I will move to London at the end of the summer to start a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London.

My research centres on developing mathematical and statistical methods to understand how pathogens spread and to support their control, using epidemiological, genomic and behavioural data. In particular, I have focused on characterising how transmission flows between groups such as ages, geographies and vaccination status, and using this information to evaluate targeted interventions.

A central challenge is that we rarely observe transmission events. Much of my recent work addresses this using pathogen genomes: because closely related infections carry nearly identical genomes, clusters of proximal sequences contain information about transmission patterns. Using this signal directly rather than reconstructing full phylogenies makes it possible to analyse very large pathogen sequence datasets. I will be recruiting to work on these questions from autumn 2026. If you’re interested, please get in touch!