Associate Professor of Mathematical Epidemiology (Univ. of Oxford - Mathematical Institute and St Hilda's College)
Joined December 2015
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Robin Thompson retweeted
31 Oct 2025
Pandemics aren’t random. They’re part of a changing, interconnected world.
Join Prof John Drake as he explores how global change drives the rise of new infectious diseases.
📅 18 November 2025, 17:00–18:00 (GMT)
📍 Oxford Martin School & Online
🔗Register here: f.mtr.cool/eqloivjuyc
ALT Event poster for "Globalisation, Global Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases" with Prof John Drake on 18th November 2025, 17:00-18:00 (GMT), available in-person and online. Logos of Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, and Pandemic Sciences Institute are displayed.
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Robin Thompson retweeted
24 Oct 2025
The freedom to go for it for three years?
Our Hooke & Titchmarsh Fellowships in pure & applied mathematics give you the space to follow a research path of your choice, a path that has proved instrumental in the careers of many previous fellows.
Details: maths.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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Robin Thompson retweeted
26 Aug 2025
We are recruiting for two exciting Professorship opportunities in association with St Anne's and Jesus Colleges.
Join one of the country's leading centres of statistical research. Applications to both roles are welcomed.
Details: stats.ox.ac.uk/jobs
Closing: 15 September
ALT The Department of Statistics reception. Credit: John Cairns
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Robin Thompson retweeted
Two Postdoc s(Oxford, UK)
Infectious disease modelling of avian influenza outbreaks
with Robin Thompson
at @UniOfOxford
More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/postdoc-pos…
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21 May 2025
Two postdoc positions are available in my group at @OxUniMaths working on developing mathematical models of avian flu outbreaks and interventions. Please apply!
maths.ox.ac.uk/node/71795
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Robin Thompson retweeted
28 Mar 2025
📢 The inaugural Schmidt Faculty Fellowship Programme officially launched today and is accepting applications.
The programme is recruiting 6 early-career faculty members from academic institutions in India or Africa to undertake fellowships at Oxford.
👉 tinyurl.com/2cpj39fu
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Robin Thompson retweeted
25 Jan 2025
Job opening in Seirin's Lab‼️🥳
• Initially for 2 years, with the potential for extension based on performance and funding availability.
• Interest in biomedical phenomena, involving mathematical modeling and/or data science. ashbi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/bimed-ma…
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Robin Thompson retweeted
13 Jan 2025
New Paper Alert! Our latest paper has been published in Communications Medicine! 🎉: nature.com/articles/s43856-0…
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Robin Thompson retweeted
How does landscape structure influence the rate and spread of crop diseases? See Suprunenko et al. Predicting the effect of landscape structure on epidemic invasion using an analytical estimate for infection rate @plantsci @LivUni_IVES @RSocPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Robin Thompson retweeted
25 Dec 2024
📢 Calling all early-career researchers
Do you want to:
🟠 develop your research identity
🟠 work on groundbreaking projects
🟠 gain leadership skills?
Our Early-Career Award is for you.
Apply by 25 Feb 2025 ➡️ wellcome.org/grant-funding/s…
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Robin Thompson retweeted
2 Oct 2024
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A new potential PhD position at Belfast and @StrathMathStat on Combining Hazard Prediction and Animal and Plant Health Diagnostics for Enhanced One-Health Decision Support Under Climate Change
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Robin Thompson retweeted
19 Sep 2024
Dr. Sarah Hayes is one of the #postdocs we’re featuring today!
Dr. Hayes research interests lie in applying statistical and epidemiological methods to further our understanding of infectious disease transmission.
Thank you, Dr. Hayes for your work!
#LovePostDocs #NPAW2024
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Robin Thompson retweeted
2 Sep 2024
2-year fellowship opportunity for postdocs from ASEAN countries: snas.org.sg/saseaf. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!
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Robin Thompson retweeted
28 Aug 2024
Warwick University is advertising two Assistant Professor positions, each of which is joint between Maths and Life Sciences. The SBIDER group in Warwick is friendly, collegiate, and an exciting place to build a research group. Come join us! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/a…
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Robin Thompson retweeted
16 Aug 2024
New post on mpox, outlining how we got here – and where we might be going next: blog.kucharski.io/?how-we-go…
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Robin Thompson retweeted
9 Aug 2024
❓How to prioritise COVID-19 booster vaccination in a range of socio-economic settings to optimise public health outcomes?
📄 Explored in our modelling study in @PLOSCompBiol
✍️Authors: Ioana Bouros @EdMHill @MattJKeeling Sam Moore @RobinNThompson
🔗: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi…
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Robin Thompson retweeted
6 Aug 2024
This week's participants from the "Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness - a focussed workshop". 👋
#NewtonMIP2024
5 Aug 2024
📢 This week's INI-based workshop is the "Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness - a focussed workshop", part of the #NewtonMIP2024 programme.
🔗 For more information on the workshop, see here: newton.ac.uk/event/mipw01/
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Robin Thompson retweeted
5 Aug 2024
📢 This week's INI-based workshop is the "Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness - a focussed workshop", part of the #NewtonMIP2024 programme.
🔗 For more information on the workshop, see here: newton.ac.uk/event/mipw01/
5 Aug 2024
📢 A very warm welcome to all of the participants joining us as part of the 1 month programme on "Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness", starting today at the Institute.
This programme will be running from the 5th to the 30th of August 2024.
#NewtonMIP2024
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Robin Thompson retweeted
2 Aug 2024
1/ 📢 Preprint news! 📢
📄"Quantifying infectious disease epidemic risks: A practical approach for seasonal pathogens" #EpiTwitter
✍️Authors: @AlexRKaye @GiGuR0 @mjtildesley @RobinNThompson
💻 code: github.com/KayeARK/Quantifyi…
🔗: doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.30.2…
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Robin Thompson retweeted
10 Jul 2024
Our paper has been selected as one of the Top 25 COVID-19 Articles of 2023 in Nature Communications!🙌
@NatureComms
🔻The Top 25 COVID-19 Articles of 2023
nature.com/collections/gjajj…
🔻Isolation may select for earlier and higher peak viral load but shorter duration in SARS-CoV-2 evolution
doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.23.5…
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