Professor of Mathematical Biology, DAMTP, University of Cambridge

David N. Moore Fellow in Mathematics, Queens' College

Current roles:

• Deputy Head of Department, DAMTP
• Vice President, Queens' College
• Director, Millennium Maths Project
• Co-lead, JUNIPER partnership

Honours and awards:

• 2023 IMA Hedy Lamarr Prize
• 2022 Weldon Memorial Prize (jointly by SPI-M-O)
• 2021 Royal Institution Christmas Co-Lecturer (with Jonathan Van Tam)
• 2020 OBE 
• 2020 Honorary Membership of the Mathematical Association
• 2020 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award
• 2018 Vice-Chancellor's Impact Award
• 2018 Queens' teaching prize
• 2017 Whitehead Prize
• 2016 Forder Lecturer
• 2015 Pilkington Prize
• 2014 LMS popular lectures

Career:

• 2017-present  Professor of Mathematical Biology 
• 2013-2017 Reader in Mathematical Biology
• 2010-2012  Visiting Fellow, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
• 2006-2013 University Lecturer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2006-2012 Royal Society University Research Fellowship, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2004-present Official Fellow, Queens' College
• 2004-2006 Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
• 2002-2004 Research Fellowship, Queens' College

Research:

Julia Gog's research is in the mathematics of infectious diseases. Recent projects include:

• Models of influenza strain dynamics
• Spatial spread of influenza
• Within-host dynamics of influenza
• In vitro dynamics of Salmonella
• Bioinformatic methods to detect RNA signals in viruses

University news items on our work

For list of publications, please try Julia's profile on Google Scholar.

Photo credit: Marisa Sutherland-Brown