Simon Dellicour

Simon Dellicour is a bioengineer graduated at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in 2009. He subsequently did a PhD under the supervision of Patrick Mardulyn (ULB, 2009-13), a first post-doc in the team of Oliver Pybus at the University of Oxford (2013-15), a second post-doc in the group of Philippe Lemey at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, 2015-18), and then joined the Spatial Epidemiology Lab in October 2018 for his third post-doc in the team of Marius Gilbert. In 2020, he became an FNRS Research Associate, a permanent academic position awarded by the Belgian Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique. Simon is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Rega Institute, Evolutionary and Computational Virology lab) and currently the director of the Spatial Epidemiology Lab. Simon has broad interests in molecular and spatial epidemiology, as well as population, landscape and conservation genetics. His main research projects focus on methodological developments and applications in landscape phylogeography, a field at the intersection of molecular and spatial epidemiology that aims to link phylogenetically informed movements to environmental factors. More specifically, his team focuses on the application and development of new methods to study the impact of environmental factors on the history and dynamics of virus dispersal, or for the evaluation of potential intervention strategies in the context of an epidemic.