Chiara Sabbatini

PhD student

• Sorbonne Université, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France
• Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, "Team 1 - Surveillance and Infectious Diseases Modeling", Paris, France

chiare.sabbatini(at) gmail.com

short bio

Out of the three years of Bachelor in Engineering Physics at the Polytechnic of Turin (IT) I was then accepted by the International Master in Physics of Complex Systems, a master whose three semesters took place in three different cities: Trieste (IT), Turin (IT), and Paris (FR). In this context, I was introduced to mathematical modeling of complex systems, and I started to express a profound interest in infectious disease epidemiology. Currently, I am pursuing a Ph.D. at IPLESP Institute in collaboration with Sorbonne University, under the supervision of Dr. Vittoria Colizza.

research activities

My research focuses on the spread of COVID-19 in France. During the first year of my PhD, I used a transmission model stratified by age, variant, and vaccination status to provide scenario analyses that anticipate the possible evolution of the pandemic, taking into account social distancing measures and the future vaccination campaign; I also carried out analyses to quantify the effectiveness of interventions as well as their sustainability and population adherence to them over time. My current work focuses on the spatial aspect of the spread, I am evaluating the impact of synchronous national interventions or local regional interventions as the pace, status, and efficacy of vaccination changes, calibrating a metapopulation epidemic model that is interconnected by a mobility network.