Professor, Department of Biology
The Koelle Research Group
Emory University
“Viral traits and pandemic emergence: can we bridge the disconnect with multiscale models”
Katia Koelle is interested in the population dynamics and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases. Her research focuses on using modeling approaches to shed light on the drivers of evolutionary change in endemically circulating viral populations, most notably SARS-CoV-2, influenza viruses, and noroviruses. Her work includes both model development and interfacing models with data. She is interested in viral dynamics at multiple scales, including at the epidemiological level, at the transmission pair level, and at the within-host level.