Vittoria Colizza is an Italian scientist, research director at INSERM and a specialist in mathematical modeling of infectious disease and computational epidemiology.
She currently leads the EPICx lab at INSERM and works on modeling the spread of emerging infectious diseases using statistical physics, computational sciences and mathematical epidemiology.
Collizza is known for her research on infectious disease dynamics and public health, using data-driven mathematical and computational models.
Her research focuses on how hosts’ behavior such as contact, commuting, air travel, migration, etc) result in the spread of disease.
(CITE ORCID) and applications of her work can be seen in epidemics in humans (e.g. 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, Ebola virus epidemic, seasonal flu, COVID-19 pandemic) and in animals (bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis), raising awareness of infectious diseases, providing risk assessment analyses to enable preparedness, mitigation and control of such diseases.