The Agusto Lab

I am a trained applied mathematician based in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas with an interdisciplinary research Lab that uses mathematical modeling and computational analysis to understand the dynamics of infectious diseases and identify strategies to mitigate their impact on human and ecological health.

The overarching research goal of my lab is to design and analyze novel mathematical models to gain insight into emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases of public health importance, with an emphasis on sustainable control strategies, human behavior impacts, and host–pathogen interactions

My current work focuses on the effect of prescribed and wildfire on communicable and noncommunicable diseases, tick-borne diseases like Ehrlichiosis across the Great plain, and understanding the role of human behavior on dynamics of disease like COVID-19.

I am looking for talented and hardworking students to join my lab, see Join The Lab page.