Adam Kucharski

Adam's research focuses on making better use of data and analytics for understanding infectious disease dynamics, to inform epidemic preparedness and response. This includes large-scale studies of social behaviour and immunity, as well as development of statistical methods and open-source software tools. Adam was a founding co-director of the Centre for Epidemic Preparedness and Response at LSHTM (2022-2025), and he has contributed scientific insights to multiple governments and health agencies. From 2017-23, he was a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow and from 2013-17 he held a Medical Research Council Career Development Award in Biostatistics. Prior to joining the School in October 2013, Adam was a postdoc at Imperial College London. Adam has a degree in mathematics from the University of Warwick (2009) and a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge (2012).