Andreas Handel

Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
UGA Foundation Professor in Public Health
Associate Department Head
Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Epidemiology & Biostatistics,

I am currently the UGA Foundation Professor in Public Health and Associate Department Head in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, at the University of Georgia (UGA). I am also a Member of UGA’s Institute of Bioinformatics and Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, and have an adjunct appointment in the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Education
  • PostDoc, Computational Biology, Emory University, 2004-2009
  • PhD, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
  • BS, Physics, University of Stuttgart, 1999
More About

For more information, see my research group and individual websites:
https://handelgroup.uga.edu/
https://www.andreashandel.com/

Areas of Expertise
  • Infectious disease modeling
  • Influenza
  • Hierarchical Bayesian analysis
  • Mechanistic models
Research Interests

My research and teaching is in the area of data analytics, statistical inference, and computational modeling, with a focus on infectious diseases.