Andreas Handel
UGA Foundation Professor In Public Health
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolAndreas Handel is a quantitative health scientist and UGA Foundation Professor in Public Health with 11 years of academic leadership and research experience in epidemiology, biostatistics, and infectious disease modeling. He has risen through faculty ranks at the University of Georgia, serving as deputy/associate department head, director of graduate studies, and leading recruitment and new graduate program initiatives for a 20-faculty department. His research blends data analytics, mechanistic modeling, and Bayesian approaches—work he extended during a sabbatical at Metrum Research Group on QSP projects and publicly released Bayesian training materials. Trained as a physicist (PhD Georgia Tech) and experienced in theoretical biology from his Emory postdoc, he brings a rare combination of quantitative rigor and practical problem solving in resource- and regulation-constrained settings. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex modeling into strategic decisions for public health and graduate training.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S. equivalent, Physics, B.S. equivalent, Physics at University of Stuttgart
English, German
Github Skills (81)
hugo-theme10
hugo10
abc10
r10
quarto10
website-template10
r-package10
netlify10
jupyter10
rmarkdown10
page-builder10
survival-analysis10
rstudio10
state-space10
markdown9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andreashandel/online-portfolio-template
Aug 2021 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes in 4 years 5 months
ahgroup/modelbuilder
Jul 2018 - May 2022
Building Compartmental Mechanistic Models Without Coding
Contributions:212 commits, 10 PRs, 206 pushes in 3 years 10 months
compartmentalmechanistic-models
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