Joshua Weitz

The central focus of Prof. Joshua Weitz's research is to understand how viruses transform human and environmental health. His group develops theories and computational models of how viral infections modulate the fates of individuals, population and communities and influence ecosystem-scale function. We collaborate with a global network of experimentalists, field-centered biologists and public health experts, striving to integrate models and data to advance fundamental understanding of how living systems work and to inform science-driven action-taking. Its research efforts are broadly organized on viruses of microbes (i.e., ‘virus ecology’) and viruses of humans (i.e., ‘infectious disease dynamics’).