Benjamin Roche

IRD Researcher

International Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Complex Systems (UMI IRD/UPMC UMMISCO)

32, Avenue Henri Varagnat

93143 Bondy Cedex

France


e-mail : roche.ben@gmail.com

Phone: +33.6.29.58.54.50

Models are to theoretical problems as experiments are to empirical problems. Caswell (1988) 

My work focuses on the links between ecosystem complexity and infectious diseases dynamics and evolution. I am developing a general framework to link, in time and space, theory of community ecology and infectious disease dynamics. My favourite biological models are avian influenza, West Nile virus and Mycobacterium ulcerans.