Liliana Salvador

My work is multidisciplinary and focuses on the quantitative epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of zoonotic diseases under the One Health umbrella. In particular, my research focuses on developing quantitative approaches to understand the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases at the wildlife, livestock and human interface and across different environments. I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the University of Arizona, a Scialog Fellow within the emphasis of ‘Mitigating Zoonotic Threats’ at the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, and I serve as the Program Coordinator of the Zoonotic Disease Subsection of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Health. I earned a B.Sc and a M.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Porto, and a Ph.D in Biology from the University of Lisbon, under the PhD Program in Computational Biology (collaboration between the Gulbenkian Institute of Science and Princeton University). I did postdoctoral work in veterinary epidemiology and data science at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia jointly appointed in the Department of Infectious Diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine and in the Institute of Bioinformatics.