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Lulla Opatowski is a Professor at Versailles Saint Quentin University (UVSQ), working within the EMEA unit UMR1018, a joint research unit with Institut Pasteur and INSERM. She leads multiple research projects focused on mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission, antimicrobial resistance dynamics, and hospital epidemiology. Her work bridges mathematical sciences with public health applications, with particular emphasis on understanding pathogen transmission mechanisms in healthcare settings and communities.
Dr. Opatowski earned her HDR in Biomathematics from Paris Saclay University in 2018, followed by a PhD in Biomathematics from University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI) between 2005-2009. Her educational background includes an Engineering degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from ENSIMAG in Grenoble (2000-2003), a Licenciatura in Mathematics and Statistics from UPC in Barcelona (2002-2003), and intensive courses in advanced mathematics and physics (1997-2000). Prior to her current position, she completed postdoctoral research at Imperial College London's MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling (2009-2012).
Her research interests span mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission dynamics, antimicrobial resistance patterns, hospital epidemiology, host-pathogen interactions, and public health intervention strategies. She specializes in developing statistical and mathematical models to understand how pathogens spread within populations, with particular focus on antibiotic-resistant bacteria in healthcare settings. Her work integrates epidemiological data with computational approaches to inform infection control practices and public health policy.
An analysis of her recent publications reveals consistent focus on antimicrobial resistance dynamics, particularly in hospital and community settings, with increasing attention to wastewater-based surveillance and environmental factors influencing resistance patterns. Her work demonstrates sophisticated methodological approaches to contact network analysis and mathematical modeling of pathogen transmission, with applications to both emerging infectious diseases like SARS-CoV-2 and persistent public health threats like antimicrobial resistance.
Dr. Opatowski serves as Principal Investigator for multiple significant research projects including ACRAS-R (Antimicrobial Resistance transmission routes in Caribbean islands), COVID-AMR, MOD-COV (Modeling of the Hospital Dissemination of SARS-CoV-2), SocialCov, SPHINx (Spread of Pathogens on Healthcare Institutions Networks), and Pandore (modeling antibiotic resistance in effluents). She has also organized important scientific events including the SPHINx conference on disease transmission in healthcare settings and the Joint Pasteur-Oxford workshop on antibiotic resistance in South East Asia.
She has been actively involved in scientific service since 2016 as an expert for the World Health Organization (WHO) on antibiotic resistance in Asia, and serves on several scientific boards including the UFR Simone Veil Medical School scientific board and the Comité Scientifique de l'ITMO 'Immunologie-Inflammation-infectiologie-Microbiologie' (I3M). Dr. Opatowski also leads the SaMMBA monthly seminars on Statistical and Mathematical Modeling in Biological Applications at Institut Pasteur in Paris.
