Data Scientist at the Robert Koch Institute, Outbreak detection, R, Disease mapping. Views are my own.
Joined December 2009
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Are you working on infectious disease modelling in the south-west of Germany? Join us on 4 Dec for our workshop at @KITKarlsruhe: swim.codeberg.page/
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PhD position (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Nowcasting and Short-Term Forecasting of Infectious Diseases
with @johannesbracher
at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/phd-candida…
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Did you know: you can use R, a statistics-oriented programming language, in your document! Check out our guide and learn how. overleaf.com/learn/latex/Kni…
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2 Sep 2024
🙇 Back to work!
I'm developing 6 #dataviz projects, to simplify every step of your chart creation:
1️⃣ Pick the Right Chart
Data To Viz is your go-to decision tree: describe your dataset, and it guides you to the most suitable chart type
🌐 data-to-viz.com
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26 Aug 2024
It can be incredibly difficult to find official sub-national shapefiles.
Luckily, there are a number of sources that make the job easier:
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Just published my short book
👣 6 Steps Towards Reproducible Research 👣
on Zenodo as epub and pdf.
Feel free to reuse and cite:
Seibold, H. (2024). 6 Steps Towards Reproducible Research. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12744…
ALT Book cover 6 Steps Towards Reproducible Research
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PhD position (Münster, Germany)
Infectious Disease Modelling / Network Analysis
with @EileWoMiSa @TheMadChatter1 @andkarch
at @ClinicalEpi
More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/phd-student…
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13 Mar 2024
Die Vorbereitungen für die „2nd National Conference on Infectious Disease Modeling 2024″ (13. – 15.03.2024) in der Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) #MONID2024 laufen auf Hochtouren! Per Livestream am 13. & 14. März auf unserem YouTube-Kanal youtube.com/@MONID_Modellier…
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21 Feb 2024
In discussions of how to improve scientific publishing (especially with regards to health emergencies), it’s worth remembering that preprint servers like @biorxivpreprint and @medrxivpreprint probably added more value to the COVID response than every big name journal combined…
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15 Jan 2024
🚨The R package `simulist`, to simulate individual-level outbreak and contact-tracing data, is now available to users. Whether you want to test your methods or models, or generate realistic teaching materials, check it out on the Epiverse website 👇epiverse-trace.github.io/sim…
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15 Jan 2024
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PUBLICATION: Last year, together with the @WHO Hub for Pandemic & Epidemic Intelligence, we organized a workshop on advanced analytics to inform decision making during public health emergencies.
The report is now live! 👇imperial.ac.uk/media/imperia…
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21 Dec 2023
From the recent SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance report for 🇩🇪: BA.2.86 and its sublineage JN.1 (declared VOI since a week) continuously increase.
Sequencing results shared from @Lackner_TUDa and team with @rki_de in the context of AMELAG - thx!
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rki.de/DE/Content/Institut/O…
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20 Dec 2023
“Forecasting influenza hospital admissions within English sub-regions using hierarchical generalised additive models” our new publication out today!
nature.com/articles/s43856-0…
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13 Dec 2023
🔜 I’ll be recruiting a number of post-docs and Phd students to my new group in Berlin.
If interested and keen on vaccine epidemiology, global health and disease dynamics, including eg modelling, stats, RSV, Pneumo, Dengue, pandemic preparedness, please get in touch
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1 Dec 2023
Introducing the European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub at #EPIDEMICS9 :
respicast.ecdc.europa.eu
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15 Nov 2023
Today, we're launching the Pathogen Harmonized Observatory, or Pharos: a global platform for managing and sharing data on wildlife disease. You can explore some example datasets, or upload your own, by heading over to pharos.viralemergence.org 🖥️
More on the project... 🧵
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16 Nov 2023
#AMELAG baut die #Abwassersurveillance in 🇩🇪 aus, um zusätzliche Informationen über die Verbreitung von Krankheitserregern zu sammeln.
Webseite u.a. mit FAQ und Abwassersurveillance-Wochenbericht zu #SARSCoV2
➡️ rki.de/abwassersurveillance
Wie Abwassersurveillance funktioniert. ⬇️
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