Ana Pastore y Piontti

She is an Associate Research Scientist at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems (MOBS Lab) at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. Her research focuses on the characterization and modeling of the spread of infectious diseases, by integrating methods of complex systems with statistical physic approaches. In the past years she was part of the team modelling the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak during 2014 in West Africa, analyzing the potential international risk of spreading of the disease outside the region. More recently, Ana was involved in the modeling of the spread of Zika in the Americas. She is also a team member of the GLEAM Project, the Global and epidemic and mobility model, that combines real-world data on populations and human mobility with elaborate stochastic models of disease transmission. Other aspects of her research include Network Science, data visualization and, Geographic Information Systems.