Christophe Fraser is Senior Group Leader in Pathogen Dynamics at the Big Data Institute, and Professor in the Nuffield Department of Medicine. Christophe is interested in studying the population dynamics and epidemiology of pathogens, and translating this knowledge to public health. The primary tools used by his group are mathematical modelling and pathogen genomics.
He trained in theoretical particle physics, and converted to mathematical biology after his PhD, in 1998. He was Royal Society URF and then Professor in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College. He joined the BDI at Oxford in 2016. He is also an advisor to the NHS Test and Trace programme.
