Speaker : Dr Jessica Liebig
Title : Efficient surveillance for minimising the risk of dengue outbreaks in Queensland
Speaker Bio : Jessica Liebig is a postdoctoral fellow at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency. She received a BSc(Hons) and PhD in Applied Mathematics from RMIT University in 2013 and 2017, respectively. Her primary research interest lies in the area of network science and is directed towards the study of infectious disease spread. She is part of CSIRO’s Disease Networks and Mobility (DiNeMo) project, an interdisciplinary research initiative that aims to understand how human infectious diseases might arrive and spread in Australia. As part of her work she identifies patterns of people movement, both internationally and domestically, to forecast the risk of disease spread. Dr Liebig is a visiting fellow at the School of Computer Science at Queensland University of Technology and an ACEMS Associate Investigator.