Elisabetta Colosi

Elisabetta is interested in infectious disease modeling and computational epidemiology. During her Ph.D., she developed an agent-based model over a primary and secondary school network to study the COVID-19 transmission in educational settings. Her project aimed to evaluate the role of school contacts in the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 and assess the effectiveness of school-based strategies that could allow for safe in-person learning. Most of the simulated strategies followed those applied in France and served to better inform authorities across different pandemic phases, from the emergence of the Alpha variant to the Omicron variant.