Marcel Salathé
Associate Professor
School of Life science
Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
Switzerland
Biography
Marcel Salathé is a digital epidemiologist. He obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich and spent two years as a postdoc in Stanford before joining the faculty at Penn State in 2010. In 2014, he spent half a year at Stanford as visiting assistant professor. In the summer of 2015, Marcel became an Associate Professor at EPFL where he heads the Digital Epidemiology Lab.
Research Interest
Population biology; Computational sciences; Social science
Publications
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Assessing vaccination sentiments with online social media: implications for infectious disease dynamics and control M Salathé, S Khandelwal PLoS computational biology 7 (10), e1002199
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Salathé M, Kazandjieva M , Lee JW, Levis P, Feldman MW,et al, (2010) A high-resolution human contact network for infectious disease transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 22020-22025.
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Funk S, Salathé M, Jansen VAA (2010) Modelling the influence of human behaviour on the spread of infectious diseases: a review. Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
