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Lorenzo Pellis
Lorenzo Pellis is a Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Manchester. He uses mathematical models to describe how infectious diseases spread in (typically human) populations and how pathogens evolve, for example in the case of emerging of resistance to drugs.
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