Education

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2011, Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics)

University of Southern California, 2006, M.S. (Biostatistics)

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999, M.S. (Mathematics)

Università di Pisa, 1997, Laurea (Mathematics)

Research Interests

Viral evolution, diversity, and sequence analysis

Antibody evolution and antibody resistance

Recombination

Phylogenetics

Vaccine design

Current Projects

Recombination in HIV and Coronaviruses

BNAb escape in mother-to-child HIV transmissions

B-cell responses in pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infections

Timing of infection in the AMP clinical trials

HVTN sieve analyses

Epigraph immunogen design for HCV vaccine studies