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Moritz Kraemer

Born in: USA
Primary research category: Infectious disease epidemiology and evolution
Research location / employer: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Fellowship dates: 2017-2022

Academic Career

  • Full Professor of Epidemiology and Data Science, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, 2024–present
  • Associate Professor of Computational & Genomic Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, 2022–2024
  • Associate Member, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, 2017–2022
  • Research Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 2017–2018
  • Post-doctoral researcher at the Evolutionary Biology and Infectious Disease group at the University of Oxford, September 2016–March 2017
  • DPhil in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2016
  • Undergraduate studies at the University of Bonn, Germany, 2012, and University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, 2011–2012

Fellowship Research

Dr. Moritz Kraemer aims to meld traditional epidemiological case-count data, pathogen genomes and high resolution geographic data into a single theoretical framework for reconstructing and predicting viral epidemics. Specifically, he will test whether integrating these data sources in existing predictive models can increase their accuracy and open up new ways of reconstructing epidemic pathways. The goal is to disentangle pathogen specific contributions of demographic, ecological and genetic factors that drive the expansion of disease. Dr. Kraemer believes they can be generalised into a modelling framework that accounts for real-world heterogeneity.

Major Awards

  • The German National Merit Foundation, 2014
  • The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to undertake graduate studies at the University of Oxford, UK, 2012
  • The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to undertake undergraduate studies at the University of Hong Kong, 2011-2012