Georgios Varotsis
PhD student at Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper; Molekylär epidemiologi
- E-mail:
- georgios.varotsis@medsci.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Epihubben, MTC-huset
Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, BV
751 85 Uppsala - Postal address:
- EpiHubben, MTC-huset
751 85 Uppsala
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-3320-2448
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Short presentation
Experienced and analytical Epidemiologist and PhD student in Epidemiology with a background in Veterinary Medicine and a passion for infectious disease dynamics. Particular interest in COVID-19 hotspot prediction, surveillance of transmission clusters, assessment of vaccination strategies, training of COVID-19 detection dogs, detection of adverse reactions to vaccines. Experience in causal inference, spatio-temporal autocorrelation, discontinuity analysis and natural language processing (NLP).
Keywords
- causal inference
- covid-19
- epidemiology
- infectious diseases
- natural language processing
- public health
- spatio-temporal data
- vaccination strategies
Biography
Vice Chair of The Medical Doctoral Student Council (Medicinska Doktorandrådet), Uppsala University
Research
On-going projects:
- SWEDCOVAX
- CRUSH Covid (https://crush-covid.shinyapps.io/crush_covid/)
- COVID Symptom Study Sweden (https://www.covid19app.lu.se/)
Media
Tove Fall Research Group (Molecular Epidemiology)
Our research section focuses on molecular epidemiology with emphasis on cardiometabolic disturbances like obesity, insulin resistance and their role in the development of cardiovascular diseases.
Publications
Recent publications
- Predicting COVID-19 hospitalizations (2024)
- Plasma levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and cardiovascular disease - Results from two independent population-based cohorts and a meta-analysis (2023)
- Sociodemographic characteristics and COVID-19 testingrates: spatiotemporal patterns and impact of testaccessibility in Sweden (2023)
- Streptococcus Species Abundance in the Gut Is Linked to Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis in 8973 Participants From the SCAPIS Cohort (2023)
- An online atlas of human plasma metabolite signatures of gut microbiome composition (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Predicting COVID-19 hospitalizations (2024)
- Plasma levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and cardiovascular disease - Results from two independent population-based cohorts and a meta-analysis (2023)
- Sociodemographic characteristics and COVID-19 testingrates: spatiotemporal patterns and impact of testaccessibility in Sweden (2023)
- Streptococcus Species Abundance in the Gut Is Linked to Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis in 8973 Participants From the SCAPIS Cohort (2023)
- An online atlas of human plasma metabolite signatures of gut microbiome composition (2022)
- App-based COVID-19 syndromic surveillance and prediction of hospital admissions in COVID Symptom Study Sweden (2022)
- Spatio-temporal predictions of COVID-19 test positivity in Uppsala County, Sweden (2022)
