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
What I Do
Epidemiology- Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases
- Contact networks
- Phylodynamics and coalescent theory
- Chain referral survey methods
- Respondent Driven Sampling
- Estimation theory and sample design
- Statistical methods for characterizing complex social and epidemiological networks
- Algorithms for generating complex networks
- Dynamic processes on networks
Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles
Erik M Volz, James S Koopman, Melissa J Ward, Andrew Leigh Brown, Simon D W Frost.
(2012)
"Simple epidemiological dynamics explain phylogenetic clustering of HIV from patients with recent infection."
PLoS Computational Biology,
Xinyu Zhang, Lin Zhong, Ethan Romero-Severson, Shah Jamal Alam, Christopher J. Henry, Erik M. Volz, and James S. Koopman.
(2012)
"Episodic HIV Risk Behavior Can Greatly Amplify HIV Prevalence and the Fraction of Transmissions from Acute HIV Infection."
Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases,
JC Miller & EM Volz.
(2012)
"Model Hierarchies in Edge-Based Compartmental Modeling for Infectious Disease Spread."
Journal of Mathematical Biology,
Joel C. Miller, Anja C. Slim and Erik M. Volz.
(2012)
"Edge-based compartmental modelling for infectious disease spread."
J. R. Soc. Interface,
9:70,
890-906.
doi:10.1098/​rsif.2011.0403
Erik M. Volz.
(2011)
"Complex population dynamics and the coalescent under neutrality."
Genetics,
doi:10.1534/genetics.111.134627
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Education and Employment
Assistant Research Professor, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Department of Epidemiology , 2009 - current
Postdoctoral fellow, University of California- San Diego, Comparative Pathology, 2007 - 2009
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Texas- Austin, Integrative Biology, 2006 - 2007
Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University, 2006
B.A. in Mathematics from University of Rochester, 2002