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Laura Di Domenico

@lauradidomenico.bsky.social
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infectious disease modeler | Post-doc at University of Hasselt

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Laura Di Domenico @lauradidomenico.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Mobility-based synthetic contact matrices offer a promising alternative for real-time pandemic response modeling. How do they compare with traditional empirical contact matrices? We address this question in our latest study, now published in Nature Communications ⬇️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Mobility-driven synthetic contact matrices as a scalable solution for real-time pandemic response modeling - Nature Communications
Contact matrices are used to describe social mixing patterns and inform mathematical models of disease transmission. Here, the authors evaluate the accuracy of synthetic contact matrices generated usi...
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Laura Di Domenico @lauradidomenico.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Our work about extending contact matrices beyond age, accounting for socio-economic dimensions, is finally published! Here, we analyse social contact data in Switzerland. Happy to see this output from my research period at @ispm.unibe.ch w/ @calthaus.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Individual and neighborhood based socioeconomic factors relevant for contact behaviour and epidemic control - Communications Medicine
Di Domenico et al. develop a method to reconstruct contact matrices fully stratified by age, education level and socioeconomic position. Results show that accounting for contact assortativity with soc...
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Chiara Poletto @chpoletto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Our analysis of modelling practices, data use, and science-policy interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic is out on @eurosurveillance.org this week. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... Wonderful collaborative effort conducted in the context of mood-h2020.eu Read the thread below 👇
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Home - MOOD project
MOnitoring Outbreaks for Disease surveillance in a data science context Innovative and collaborative tools and services for early detection, assessment, and monitoring of current and potential infecti...
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Esther van Kleef @esthervk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Really great to see that our paper is now officially published in the latest #Eurosurveillance. As it was accepted with only minor edits, this earlier post still captures the key messages: tiny.cc/036u001.
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Francesco Parino @fparino.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📣 Call for Abstracts! 📣 Join us at BehEpi Satellite, part of CCS 2025 in Siena, Italy (Sept 3–5). We’re exploring how human behavior influences epidemic dynamics. 🔗 More info and submission at: www.epicx-lab.com/behepi-satel... 📅 Deadline: June 13, 2025 #CCS25
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BehEpi-Satellite
Applicants are invited to prepare a 1-page PDF (500 words max). Applications are now open and will close on 13 June 2025 at 17:00 CEST time.
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Chiara Poletto @chpoletto.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
As the COVID-19 pandemic emergency receded, we systematically reviewed modeling practices, data provisioning, and sharing among the modeling teams in the MOOD European consortium Our pre-print is finally out www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Check out the thread by @esthervk.bsky.social below👇
Goal and methodologies used for modelling studies by MOOD partners during the COVID-19 pandemicData used, data missing, and data limitations for modelling studies by MOOD partners during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Laura Di Domenico @lauradidomenico.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We have a new pre-print out, extending traditional age-stratified contact matrices using Swiss data, w/ Martina Reichmuth and @calthaus.bsky.social "Individual-based and neighbourhood-based socio-economic factors relevant for contact behaviour and epidemic control" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Great work about synthetic contact matrices derived from mobility data by @lauradidomenico.bsky.social @paolobosetti.bsky.social @vcolizza.bsky.social and coauthors www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mobility-driven synthetic contact matrices: a scalable solution for real-time pandemic response modeling
Non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted social mixing patterns, creating a need for updated mathematical models to guide an effective response. Accurately...
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