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I’m Joshua Weitz, a physicist-turned-quantitative bioscientist, researcher, and author.

I am a Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of Biology where I hold an affiliate appointment at the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing in North Bethesda. Our team of graduate students and scientists explores how viruses transform human and environmental health. Since starting as faculty in 2007, we have published over 150 scientific articles and continue to collaborate with experimental and field-based colleagues worldwide.

I am equally committed to supporting the next-generation of quantitatively trained scientists working to understand living systems across scales from molecules to ecosystems. I have written an award-winning graduate monograph on Quantitative Viral Ecology, an upper division undergraduate/1st year graduate textbook on ‘Quantitative Biosciences’ (including companions in R, Python, and MATLAB).

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