Associate Professor James McCaw

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I am an Associate Professor of Mathematical Biology and past Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2011-15) at the University of Melbourne. I hold a split appointment between the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. I also hold an honorary appointment at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. My interests lie in the application of mathematics and computation to a broad range of problems in infectious diseases biology, epidemiology and public health.

I am also a chief investigator on the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for Policy Relevant Infectious Disease Simulation and Mathematical Modelling (PRISM²), where I lead the influenza and respiratory virus research theme.

At the University of Melbourne, I coordinate the Bachelor of Science Major in Computational Biology and am the Assistant Dean (Graduate Programs) in the Faculty of Science.

If you are interested in working or studying in my group, please contact me.

With Associate Professor Julie Simpson, Dr Federico Frascoli (Swinburne) and Associate Professor Jane Heffernan (York, Canada), I received an ARC Discovery Project "Mathematical and statistical methods for modelling invivo pathogen dynamics" (2017 - 19). The grant will support our research on within-host dynamics of influenza infection and pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling for malaria.

With Professor Leann Tilley, I received the 2016 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research.