Project Scientsts

Dr. Carlos Gonzalez Crespo (PhD)  is now a project scientist interested in the epidemiology of infectious diseases and their impact on ecosystems. He has been working as wildlife biologist with several years of conservation background in wildlife rescue centers and conservation programs.  With the aim of helping wildlife by decreasing their threats from a higher level of decision, he decided to study in the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, for a master’s degree in Biodiversity Management where he continued with a PhD in Biodiversity about the management and epidemiology of urban wildlife, where he discovered his passion for modeling. His dissertation focused on the use of models as a tool to assess the cost-effectiveness of management strategies, as well as to evaluate the spread, transmission risks, and epidemiological implications for public health of pathogens carried by urban wild boars (Sus scrofa) in the city of Barcelona, Spain. He is working in the department in the application and development of Agent Based Models to evaluate interactions, conflicts, and disease transmission potential at the wildlife-domestic-human interface, especially for African swine fever. 

Jose Pablo Gomez-Vazquez (DVM, MPVM, PHD) is a postdoctoral researcher interested in the application of spatiotemporal modeling to study infectious disease dynamics. Pablo has been integrating methodologies from complex systems such as network analysis and agent based models to study the impact of transboundary infectious diseases in animal production systems. He also worked with some COVID related projects including spatiotemporal analysis of COVID 19 in Mexico City and modeling the effect of testing and vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID 19 in nursing homes. Pablo is also interested in data visualization and the development of open access platforms that facilitates science communication and data analysis. Currently he working with veterinary services in different countries in the development of tools that can be used to asses the risk of introduction and dissemination livestock diseases, and the impact of different control strategies.