Regös, Roland Robert

Biography

He was born in Budapest and was raised in Germany. I did my undergraduate degree in physics at Munich University. After my diploma in 1996, I switched to theoretical biology. I studied with Martin Nowak at Oxford University for a MSc degree and with Sebastian Bonhoeffer at the ETH Zurich for a PhD. From 2001 until 2005, I worked with Rustom Antia, Silvija Staprans, Mark Feinberg, and Bruce Levin at Emory University. After my postdoc I came back to Zurich and joined the Theoretical Biology group of Sebastian Bonhoeffer as a senior postdoc. Since 2007, I have been leading a small research group in mathematical immunology and virology with funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2011, I became a "Privatdozent".

Research Interest

His research focuses on the population biology of infectious diseases. He used mathematical models to address questions that concern mostly the within-host dynamics of pathogens --- how they replicate, how they ellicit immune responses and how they are controlled. He focus on HIV, SIV and LCMV infections, but have also been studying poliovirus, CMV, influenza virus and E. coli. In addition, he is interested in the between-host dynamics and the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite systems. In this context, he has been studying, for example, how new infectious diseases emerge, and if the use of antivirals will lead to the rise of viral resistance during influenza pandemics.