Joshua Weitz

Joshua S. Weitz is a Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland where he holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics. Previously, he held the Tom and Marie Patton Chair at Georgia Tech where he founded the Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences. Weitz received his PhD in Physics from MIT in 2003 and did postdoctoral training in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton from 2003-2006. Prof. Weitz directs an interdisciplinary group focusing on understanding how viruses transform human and environmental health. Weitz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a Simons Foundation Investigator in Ocean Processes and Ecology as well as in Theoretical Physics of Living Systems. Weitz has authored an award-winning book on Quantitative Viral Ecology (Princeton University Press, 2015), a textbook and computational lab guide series on Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics Across Cells, Organisms, and Populations (Princeton University Press, 2024, with companions in R, Python, and MATLAB) and more than 150 peer reviewed articles on topics ranging from viral ecology to infectious disease dynamics to the structure of complex networks.