Sebastian Funk
Consultant at Robert Koch Institute
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Funk is a Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling and consultant with 14 years of experience translating Bayesian inference and mathematical models into real-time outbreak forecasts used by WHO, ECDC, UKHSA and the Robert Koch Institute. He leads the epiforecasts group at LSHTM, focusing on multi-model ensembles, predictive evaluation, and openly available R tools that enable rapid nowcasting and decision-ready insights during epidemics. His work bridges academic rigour and operational public health needs, emphasising reproducible, reusable methodology that can be adopted by practitioners worldwide. Trained in physics and holding a PhD from the University of London, he combines theoretical depth with practical software development to improve pandemic preparedness.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinDoctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy at University of London
Github Skills (180)
prediction-model10
r610
difference10
realtime10
mixing10
bayesian-data-analysis10
transmission10
ruby10
linuxbrew10
forecast10
bayesian-inference10
corona10
r10
statistics10
linux10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sbfnk/dynmod
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:56 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
sbfnk/fitR
Jun 2014 - Jul 2019
Functions for model fitting and inference
Contributions:180 commits, 16 PRs, 98 pushes in 5 years 1 month
bayesian-inferencerr-package
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