Erik M. Volz

Assistant Research Professor
Department of Epidemiology
University of Michigan Ann Arbor

erikvolz@umich.edu

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Erik M. Volz
Dept. of Epidemiology
University of Michigan
1415 Washington Hts.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Research

Erik Volz (PhD) is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Volz's research concerns the evolution of infectious diseases, mathematical epidemiology, social and sexual networks, and other computational methods related to infectious disease research. Dr. Volz has a substantive focus on HIV and influenza. Recent developments include improved methods for estimating HIV incidence, transmission rates, and behavioral heterogeneity of populations at risk of HIV. Dr. Volz has graduate training in sociology and mathematics (Cornell University) and postdoctoral training in HIV research (University of California- San Diego). He is currently supported by a NIH career development award to develop methods for molecular epidemiological surveillance of HIV.

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Erik M. Volz, Katia Koelle, Trevor Bedford. (2013) "." PLoS Computational Biology, 9:3, e1002947. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002947
Simon DW Frost and Erik M Volz. (2013) "." Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 368:1614, 20120208. doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0208
Erik M Volz, James S Koopman, Melissa J Ward, Andrew Leigh Brown, Simon D W Frost. (2012) "." PLoS Computational Biology, 8:6, e1002552. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002552
Joel C. Miller, Anja C. Slim and Erik M. Volz. (2012) "." J. R. Soc. Interface, 9:70, 890-906. doi:10.1098/​rsif.2011.0403
Erik M. Volz. (2012) "." Genetics, 190:1, 187-201. doi:10.1534/genetics.111.134627
Erik M. Volz, Joel C. Miller, Alison Galvani, Lauren Ancel Meyers. (2011) "." PLoS Computational Biology, 7:6, e1002042. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002042
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Employment

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012 - current
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2009 - 2011
Postdoctoral fellow (NIH T32), Department of Comparative Pathology, University of California– San Diego, 2007 - 2009
Postdoctoral fellow, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas– Austin, TX, 2006 - 2007

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University, 2006
B.A. in Mathematics from University of Rochester, 2002