James Hay

James Hay

Junior Research Fellow

Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Dynamics

Profile

James is a research fellow at the Nuffield Department of Medicine funded through a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award. His expertise is in infectious disease modelling, with a specific interest in using quantitative biomarker data, such as viral loads and antibody titers, to understand and track the dynamics of infectious diseases, particularly influenza and SARS-CoV-2. He typically uses Bayesian multi-level models to link data and models across scales, from within-host models of viral kinetics and immune responses to agent-based models of disease spread.

He completed his PhD at Imperial College in 2019 and spent three years as a postdoc at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Before that, his undergraduate degree was in Natural Sciences (Zoology) at the University of Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Computing Science at Imperial College.