Matthew Turner

I am a Postdoc with the Stanford Pandemic Preparedness Hub, working with James Holland Jones in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.  My Pandemic Preparedness project is to develop computer simulations of the evolution and spread of disease variants, such as the omicron COVID-19 variant, in different social networks. If we better understand how diseases evolve and spread in controlled, simulated social contexts, we can better predict and prepare for the evolution and spread of new variants in the real world.