Nick Davies
Associate Professor
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Davies is an infectious disease modeller and Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with a decade of experience applying mathematical and statistical methods to pathogen transmission and evolution. He studies how vaccination, human behaviour and immunity shape pathogen dynamics and informs pandemic response through evidence synthesis and policy engagement. Nick was a member of SPI-M during COVID-19 and spent six months seconded to the Cabinet Office COVID-19 Taskforce, contributing directly to UK government decision-making. Awarded an MBE in 2022 for his work on the pandemic, he brings rigorous DPhil training in systems biology from Oxford to interdisciplinary teams bridging theory, data and policy.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B. Arts. Sc., Arts and Science, B. Arts. Sc., Arts and Science at McMaster UniversityD. Phil., Mathematics (Systems Biology), D. Phil., Mathematics (Systems Biology) at University of Oxford
Github Skills (41)
r10
data-visualisation10
single-file10
graphic10
dbg10
rstudio9
ide9
dependency-free9
lua8
luajit8
shiny8
r-package8
scripting7
web-development5
model-fitting5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nicholasdavies/luajr
Dec 2023 - Jun 2026
R package for LuaJIT scripting
Contributions:9 releases, 137 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
luajitrr-packagescripting
nicholasdavies/tweak
Nov 2020 - May 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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