Nicholas Geard

Nicholas Geard is a Research Fellow in the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. He obtained his PhD in computational simulation from the University of Queensland. His current research concerns the relationship between population structure and disease, using simulation models to explore the impact of demography, contact structure and individual behaviour on the dynamics of disease spread and patterns of immunity.

VIRGo
Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Carlton
Victoria
3010
Australia

Email: ngeard@unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://sites.google.com/site/nicgeard/

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James M McCaw

James McCaw is a mathematical epidemiologist in the Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds a PhD in mathematical physics and is currently supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, working at the interface between mathematics, epidemiology and biology. His primary research focus in the field of infectious diseases modelling is influenza, where he seeks to characterise how it spreads in populations, and how we may best mitigate its impact. His research interests extend to other pathogens such as HIV, malaria and pertussis.

VIRGo
Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Carlton, Victoria
3010
Australia

Email: jamesm@unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://mathmodelling.sph.unimelb.edu.au/~jamesm/

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Alan Dorin

Alan Dorin is an academic at Monash University, an Artificial Life researcher and electronic media artist. His interests include ecosystem simulation and agent-based modelling, artificial chemistry, self-assembly, evolution of complexity, the history and philosophy of science and art, and the links binding all fields together. Alan's artistic works typically employ biologically-inspired generative systems and have been exhibited internationally in galleries and science museums. Alan has a PhD in Computer Science (Monash University), a Postgrad. Dip. in Animation and Interactive Media (RMIT), Honours in Comp. Sci. (Monash University) and a B.Sc. (App. Maths, Monash University).

Building 63
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria
3800
Australia

Email: alan.dorin@monash.edu
Web: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~aland

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Kevin B Korb

Dr Kevin Korb is a Reader in the Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University. He received his PhD in philosophy of science from Indiana University in 1992. His research interests include Bayesian philosophy of science, causal discovery algorithms, Bayesian networks, evolutionary artificial life simulation, and the epistemology of simulation. He is the author of "Bayesian Artificial Intelligence" (CRC, 2010) and "Evolving Ethics" (Imprint Academic, 2010) and co-founder of the journal Psyche, the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the Australasian Bayesian Network Modelling Society.

Building 63
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria
3800
Australia

Email: kbkorb@gmail.com
Web: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~korb/

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Jodie McVernon

Jodie McVernon is Deputy Head of the Vaccine & Immunisation Research Group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Melbourne School of Population Health. Her background is in clinical medicine, with subspecialty training in paediatrics, public health and vaccinology, and research training in epidemiologic modelling of infectious disease. Her research seeks to identify key biological and sociological drivers of heterogeneous infection experience and spread in populations, to identify improved strategies for disease control.

VIRGo
Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Carlton, Victoria
3010
Australia

Email: j.mcvernon@unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://www.sph.unimelb.edu.au/about/contact/allstaff/mcvernon