Marie-Curie fellowship for Benny Borremans

Benny Borremans, with whom we have been collaborating for a few years now, has been awarded a Marie-Curie fellowship. More information is provided below. Title: Spillover of Leptospira in island populations of the Channel Island fox Keywords: Leptospirosis, emerging infectious diseases, cross-species transmission, zoonosis, marine- terrestrial transmission, island ecology  Abstract:…
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Dr. Guillaume Béraud

Guillaume Béraud defended his PhD thesis last Friday. A job well done! Guillaume will keep working with us on modelling the spread of infectious diseases. A link to his thesis will be made available soon.
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Dr. Yannick Vandendijck

Yannick Vandendijck has recently been awarded his PhD in Statistics degree from Hasselt University. We are very happy that Yannick will continue to be a member of the SIMID team. Yannick Vandendijck: ‘ Semi-Parametric Methods for Applications in Survey Data and Geostatistical Data’ – 25 September 2015.
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Dr. Steven Abrams

Steven Abrams has recently been awarded his PhD in Statistics degree from Hasselt University. We are very happy that Steven will continue to be a member of the SIMID team. Steven Abrams: 'Statistical models for estimating individual heterogeneity in acquisition of infectious diseases and outbreak risk in highly vaccinated populations'…
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New FWO postdoctoral fellow: Prof. Dr. Wim Delva

Wim Delva has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the FWO and will join the SIMID group. His FWO research project is a collaborative project between Hasselt University (Niel Hens) and the KULeuven (Annemie Vandamme), entitled "Combining phylodynamics and agent-based HIV transmission modelling to advance epidemiological methodology and evidence- based…
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Dr. Benson Ogunjimi and Dr. Lander Willem

Benson Ogunjimi and Lander Willem have recently been awarded their PhD degree. Benson Ogunjimi: 'The quantitative analysis of varicella-zoster virus infection: from epidemiology to immunology' - 27 April 2015 Lander Willem: 'Agent-based models for infectious disease transmission: exploration, estimation & computational efficiency' - 18 June 2015  
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