Thomas OBADIA

Thomas is a biostatistician who holds an engineering degree in Agronomy (Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France). He also holds a Ph.D. in biostatistics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie for his work on the spread of nosocomial pathogens on contact networks. During his Ph.D at INSERM, he investigated how high-resolution dynamical contact data could support infection-tracing conducted using more traditional approaches in healthcare settings, e.g. routine swabbing and genetic characterization of strains detected in patients or healthcare workers. He developed a new statistical framework to test the correlation between dynamic close-proximity interaction networks and biological carriage data. While at INSERM, he also developed the R0 package for R that aimed at implementing several computation methods used in estimating reproduction parameters for emerging transmissible diseases. After working as a statistical modeller for a private company in the pharmaceutical industry, he joined the Hub in 2016 as a statistician and is now involved in the projects of the Malaria: parasites and hosts unit headed by Ivo Mueller.

• #17289 : Mosquito vector competence for Zika virus (Anna-Bella FAILLOUX - Arboviruses and Insect Vectors) - Pending
• #17063 : Tests serologics anti-CNF1 (Daniel GUERIN - Bacterial Toxins) - Closed
• #12853 : Impact des contraintes biomécanistiques sur la dynamique des macro-ouverture induits par l'EDIN de Staphylococcus aureus. (Camille MOREL - Bacterial Toxins) - In Progress
• #12106 : An Aedes albopictus-driven epidemiological prediction for arboviral diseases outbreak in Europe (Pei-Shi YEN - Arboviruses and Insect Vectors) - Closed
• #11074 : Evaluation de la représentativité génétique d'un pool de souches (Emilie SITTERLÉ - Fungal Biology and Pathogenicity) - Closed