Academic Interests
The evolutionary and ecological dynamics of human diseases, particularly those with a wildlife reservoir. Tools of the trade are statistical methods and simulation modelling. Data comes from surveillance work and various proxies, including historic records of human outbreaks. Currently working on Yersinia pestis, which is the canonical example of a wildlife disease that sporadically erupted into grave pandemics in humans. I am also working on smallpox in early 18th-century Sweden, and branching out to current-day diseases in the Netherlands and Africa at my new employer: Wageningen University.
I maintain a website at boris.earth