Edwin Van Leeuwen
Principal Infectious Disease Modeller at UK Health Security Agency
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdwin Van Leeuwen is a Principal Infectious Disease Modeller with 16 years of experience applying mathematical and Bayesian models to respiratory and zoonotic disease transmission, currently leading vaccination strategy modelling at the UK Health Security Agency. He combines academic rigour—PhD in Mathematical Biology and roles at LSHTM—with practical public health impact, informing immunisation programmes and cost-effectiveness decisions. His work spans stochastic and ODE-based approaches, C++/R simulation, and close collaboration with experimental scientists to align models with data. Notably, he contributes to global preparedness efforts through the Epiverse project, bringing foresight into the next public health crisis.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematical Biology, Passed (without corrections), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematical Biology, Passed (without corrections) at Royal Holloway, University of LondonMaster of Science (MSc), Environmental Science, Theoretical Biology, Master of Science (MSc), Environmental Science, Theoretical Biology at Wageningen University
English, Dutch, German, French
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
BlackEdder/plotd
Mar 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:15 releases, 358 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 7 months
plotstreamspythoncli
BlackEdder/painlessjson
Jul 2014 - Jul 2019
D library for converting any custom types to and from JSON the painless way.
Contributions:7 releases, 117 commits, 32 PRs in 5 years
objectmapperconvertingcustom-typespainlessjson
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