Short Bio:
Mirjam Kretzschmar is a professor for Dynamics of Infectious Diseases at the University Medical Center of Utrecht University, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. After studying mathematics in Germany, she specialised on applying mathematical modelling to understand the dynamics of infectious diseases in populations. She is particularly interested in and how contact patterns shape infectious disease epidemiology, and how they can be modelled as dynamic networks. She uses mathematical modelling to analyse the impact of public health interventions on infectious diseases. Recently, she applied mathematical modelling to assess the impact of various interventions for mitigating the spread of COVID-19.