About

I am broadly interested in network science and computational epidemiology, with a special focus on integrating social and biological data. As of September 2024, I am a FWF Cluster of Excellence: “Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health” postdoc at the Bergthaler Lab, Medical University of Vienna.

SLORA: Sick Leave On the Rise in Austria (2026-2028)

I am excited to be a co-PI on the Sick Leave On the Rise in Austria (SLORA) project, funded by the Data:Research:Austria (ÖAW) program, where we study respiratory disease-related sick leave in Austria using data-driven epidemic modelling. The project combines administrative and survey data from the Austrian Micro Data Center, vaccination data, sick leave data, and wastewater surveillance data.

SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow (2022-2024)

Previously, I worked on Awareness Modelling in Epidemics as an SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow hosted by Márton Karsai at DNDS, CEU, Vienna. Recent manuscripts on this topic include a genetic data-driven [1] and a network theoretic [2] approach.

PhD (2017-2022)

My thesis was on the source idenitfication problem; the goal is to design efficient algorithms that find the first infected individual (also called patient zero) during an epidemic, based on sparse measurements about who got infected and when. I was fortunate to be advised by Patrick Thiran at EPFL. Click here to read more about my PhD work.