Michael Bretscher
- Phone: +41 61 284 87 08
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- Email: michael.bretscher@unibas.ch
- Profession: Dipl. Natw. ETH, Biologist
- Position: PhD Student
- Department/Unit:
Main Topic of PhD and Supervisor
- Supervisor: Thomas Smith
- PhD Topic: Infection Dynamics of Malaria
Current Research Projects
- Estimation of distributional parameters of malaria infection durations from longitudinal field data when detection of the parasite is imperfect.
- Statistical analysis of short term parasite dynamics from longitudinal field data.
Main Interests
- The use of individual based models for parameter estimation.
- Distributed computing using the BOINC platform to fit such models.
- Infection dynamics of parasite populations.
- Infectious diseases in developing countries
- The role of health, education and research in Development