Mobility-based synthetic contact matrices offer a promising alternative for real-time pandemic response modeling. How do they compare with traditional empirical contact matrices? We address this question in our latest study, now published in Nature Communications ⬇️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Our work about extending contact matrices beyond age, accounting for socio-economic dimensions, is finally published! Here, we analyse social contact data in Switzerland. Happy to see this output from my research period at @ispm.unibe.ch w/ @calthaus.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Our analysis of modelling practices, data use, and science-policy interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic is out on @eurosurveillance.org this week. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... Wonderful collaborative effort conducted in the context of mood-h2020.eu Read the thread below 👇

Really great to see that our paper is now officially published in the latest #Eurosurveillance. As it was accepted with only minor edits, this earlier post still captures the key messages: tiny.cc/036u001.

📣 Call for Abstracts! 📣 Join us at BehEpi Satellite, part of CCS 2025 in Siena, Italy (Sept 3–5). We’re exploring how human behavior influences epidemic dynamics. 🔗 More info and submission at: www.epicx-lab.com/behepi-satel... 📅 Deadline: June 13, 2025 #CCS25

As the COVID-19 pandemic emergency receded, we systematically reviewed modeling practices, data provisioning, and sharing among the modeling teams in the MOOD European consortium Our pre-print is finally out www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Check out the thread by @esthervk.bsky.social below👇

We have a new pre-print out, extending traditional age-stratified contact matrices using Swiss data, w/ Martina Reichmuth and @calthaus.bsky.social "Individual-based and neighbourhood-based socio-economic factors relevant for contact behaviour and epidemic control" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great work about synthetic contact matrices derived from mobility data by @lauradidomenico.bsky.social @paolobosetti.bsky.social @vcolizza.bsky.social and coauthors www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...