Professor of Infectious Disease Dynamics at @LSHTM and @cmmid_lshtm; @wellcometrust Senior Research Fellow
London, United Kingdom
Joined December 2015
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Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
Publication day for my first perspective piece 🎉 Lucky to have worked with such great collaborators on this project 🤩 Read it here: journals.plos.org/ploscompbi… @institutpasteur
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
Happy to share that we FINALLY published version 2.0.0 of scoringutils on CRAN.
scoringutils is an R package designed to facilitate the evaluation of forecasts. It operates on data.table, is very slick and has a lot of visualisations and extra features.
epiforecasts.io/scoringutils…
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
We are thrilled to share that our paper on mpox importation risk in 2022 is now published in @JIDJournal: academic.oup.com/jid/article…
A big thanks to our team: @FuminariMiura @mepbphhond_ Jacco Wallinga @sbfnk @JustinLessler @_akiraendo
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Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
🧵1/ New preprint out on medrxiv: “Collaborative forecasting of influenza-like illness in Italy: the Influcast experience”
In this work, we analyze the first year of Influcast, Italy’s first collaborative hub for epidemic forecasting.
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
There are ongoing outbreaks of #Mpox globally that would require a coordinated response from the global health community.
Why should we care? (1/4)
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
Looking for modeller with experience with Bayesian models & modelling respiratory viruses & an interest in working with massive electronic health record data set Work w @rozeggo & myself & @rozeggo using @OpenSAFELY Apply by 12 July jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
It was great to deliver a new course on Nowcasting and Forecasting of Infectious Disease Dynamics (team effort with @kathsherratt and @seabbs) at ESPIDAM in Stockholm this week su.se/department-of-mathemat…. Hopefully again next year! All materials available at nfidd.github.io/nfidd/
And if R programming is your thing you should also consider this Research Software Engineer post jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp… @RStatsJobsBot @RStatsJobs
5 more days to apply for a postdoc in my group. Short duration but potentially with opportunities for follow-up funding. Details at jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
5 more days to apply for a postdoc in my group. Short duration but potentially with opportunities for follow-up funding. Details at jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
Postdoc (London, United Kingdom)
Real-time outbreak modelling and forecasting
with @sbfnk
at @epiforecasts @cmmid_lshtm
More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/research-fe…
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
Postdoc (London, United Kingdom)
Real-time outbreak modelling and forecasting
with @sbfnk
at @epiforecasts @cmmid_lshtm
More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/research-fe…
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
It was great to have Prof. Lulla Opatowski @LullaOpatowski visit our group and give a fantastic talk on modeling antimicrobial resistance!
Thoroughly enjoyed visiting @ViolaPriesemann, team and collaborators at @mpids this week and learning about all the exciting work they're doing. Slides from my talk are at epiforecasts.io/slides/mpi_g…
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
Improving modelling for epidemic responses: reflections from members of the UK infectious disease modelling community on their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic
Workshop report 👇
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
Great initiative moving forward forecasting capabilities…open to modeling teams from all countries.
Introducing the European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub at #EPIDEMICS9 :
respicast.ecdc.europa.eu
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
Introducing the European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub at #EPIDEMICS9 :
respicast.ecdc.europa.eu – at Bologna, Emilia Romagna
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
Join us in a few hours for our virtual launch of RespiCast, ECDC’s respiratory disease forecasting hub! (respicast.ecdc.europa.eu/for…)
14:00-15:00 CET, 20 Nov, link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup…
@ECDC_EU @ECDC_Flu @ISI_Fondazione @cmmid_lshtm @LSHTM @lilla_poffen
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
Great opportunity to work with us on our Thanzi La Onse health system modelling project.
Looking for a talented quantitative post-doctoral researcher who enjoys interdisciplinary work and tackling ambitious “big picture” projects.
Apply by 6th Dec:
Are you interested in working in public health? A new Research Fellow position is currently being advertised at @imperialcollege, to work on the new Thanzi la Mawa Research Project. Applications are open until 6 December 2023. Find out more: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descript… #ResearchJobs
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
We're hiring! Assistant Professor in infectious disease epidemiology/modelling employed by LSHTM and based in Nagasaki, to join the vaccine research team--John Edmunds, Kaja Abbass and myself
Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Assistant Professor (Nagasaki, Japan) jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/EPH-EPED-20…
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
The burden and dynamics of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in England.
Relieved to see this finally out: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
with
@_StephanieEvans @thimui_pham @JVRobotham @gmknght @InfectiousMoYin @cherrylimxq @markgpritchard @drdavideyre @JonRead15 @PeterHorby @sbfnk et al
ALT Factors associated with healthcare-associated SARS-CoV-2 in patients
Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) retweeted
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