Erik M. Volz
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.
(2011)
"Complex population dynamics and the coalescent under neutrality."
Genetics. In press.
Joel C. Miller, Anja C. Slim and Erik M. Volz
(2011)
"Edge-based compartmental
modelling for infectious disease spread."
J. R. Soc. Interface ,
doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0403
Erik M. Volz, Joel C. Miller, Alison Galvani, Lauren Ancel Meyers.
(2011)
"Effects of Heterogeneous and Clustered Contact Patterns on Infectious Disease Dynamics."
PLoS Computational Biology,
7:6,
e1002042.
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002042
Meggan E. Craft, Erik Volz, Craig Packer and Lauren Ancel Meyers.
(2010)
"Disease transmission in territorial populations: the small-world network of Serengeti lions."
J. R. Soc. Interface ,
doi:10.1098/rsif.2010.0511
Simon D. W. Frost and Erik M. Volz.
(2010)
"Viral phylodynamics and the search for an ‘effective number of infections’."
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B,
365:1548,
1879-1890.
doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0060
Complete Publication List
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