Seba Contreras

Seba Contreras is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Physics of Disease Spread at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. His work bridges mathematical modelling, dynamical systems, and infectious disease epidemiology to uncover principles in outbreak controllability and disease dynamics.

• Dr. rer. nat. (Physics of Biological and Complex Systems, 2023) - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• MSc (Extractive Metallurgy, 2019) - Universidad de Chile
• BEng & Dipl.-Eng. (Civil Engineering, 2017) - Universidad de Chile

His research integrates complex systems and infectious diseases with a focus on:

• Non-pharmaceutical interventions during pandemics
• Competition and co-infection dynamics between diseases
• Information-disease feedback loops
• Statistical methods for epidemiological data correction
• Parameter inference from limited medical datasets
• Machine learning applications in protein engineering

Recent publications demonstrate expertise in machine learning for biological datasets, epidemic models with heterogeneous populations, and data-driven public health policy. Collaborations span human genetics, theoretical ecology, protein engineering, and social sciences across institutions in Chile and Germany.