Dr Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio

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Position

Professor II at the University of Oslo

Dr Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio is professor II at the University of Oslo and department director at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and heads the COVID-19 modelling team at NIPH, a collaboration between researchers at NIPH, University of Oslo, Norwegian Computing Centre and Telenor Research.

Her research is focused on mathematical modelling of infectious diseases to assist policy decision-making and social network analysis related to understanding transmission patterns of infectious diseases.

She has an MSc (1997) and PhD (2002) from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.