Christian Althaus
Deputy Head Section Emerging Infectious Diseases And International Cooperation
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolChristian Althaus is a computational epidemiologist and leader with over a decade of experience applying mathematical modeling and data science to emerging infectious diseases. He currently serves as Deputy Head for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and leads research efforts at the University of Bern, where he founded an interfaculty data and computational science platform. His work on transmission dynamics has informed understanding of Ebola, MERS, and COVID-19 and earned him roles on national advisory bodies such as the Swiss COVID-19 Science Task Force. Comfortable bridging academia, public health, and policy, he combines hands-on model development with team building and grant-winning project management. An underappreciated strength is his track record of translating within-host and population-level models into practical guidance for health authorities.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Theoretical Biology, Ph.D., Theoretical Biology at Utrecht UniversityDipl. Natw. ETH, Biology, Dipl. Natw. ETH, Biology at ETH ZürichErasmus exchange programme, Erasmus exchange programme at Humboldt University of Berlin
German, English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (11)
virus10
estimate10
sports-data10
r-package9
tsne9
containment7
essence6
r-programming6
machine-learning5
letter4
dashboard2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
INPUTBern/research-meetings
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
INPUT Research Meetings
Contributions:61 commits, 1 PR, 65 pushes in 10 months
machine-learning
calthaus/Ebola
Jul 2015 - Jun 2018
Analyses of Ebola virus disease outbreaks
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 28 pushes in 2 years 11 months
virusanalysesebolaoutbreaksdisease
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