Chiala Poletto

Chiara Poletto is researcher at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Paris, working on the spreading of infectious diseases seen as a complex system phenomenon. Epidemics are mediated by human contacts and, on a different scale, by human mobility patterns. Therefore, the role of network structure on infection risk, its persistence and impact on the population is a central question of her research work. Within this broad context, she focuses her studies on emerging diseases (MERS, Ebola, Zika, COVID-19) and ecology of seasonal and pandemic influenza. Poletto received her PhD in physics at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2009 and was then Post Doc at the Computational Epidemiology Laboratory, ISI Foundation, Torino (Italy), before joining the INSERM in 2012. She received the Junior Scientific Award of the Complex Systems Society for extraordinary scientific achievements.