Eugenio Valdano

My name is Eugenio Valdano. I am a researcher at the Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (IPLESP) of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), and Sorbonne Université, in Paris, France.

I am an infectious disease epidemiologist with a background in theoretical physics. I develop data-rich mathematical models to study how infectious disease spread, in human and animal populations. Patterns of human mobility and mixing influence the likelihood of epidemic outbreaks, drive their evolution, and determine the condition for disease containment and elimination. I design theoretical models to combine data on human behavior and epidemiological data to understand epidemics, make scenarios, help guide public health interventions.

Recently, I have been working on COVID-19, and HIV/AIDS. My next goal is to study the impact of climate change on epidemics.