I am Seba Contreras, postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, working on dynamical systems and disease spread. Using mathematical modelling, I search to uncover general principles in the dynamics of infectious diseases and gain quantitative insights on the controllability of an outbreak. My recent work focuses on studying non-pharmaceutical interventions, competition and coinfection dynamics between diseases, and the complex interplay between information and disease spread.

Besides my primary research, I have several active collaborations with researchers from various areas (e.g., human genetics, machine learning, theoretical ecology, protein engineering, cancer research, social scientists, and geostatisticians). If you feel like your research could use some extra modelling, let’s get in touch!

Download my (probably outdated) resumé.