List of works - Sebastian Funk

"Pathogen Eradication" and "Emerging Pathogens": Difficult Definitions in Cystic Fibrosis

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

3.9 day orbital modulation in the TeV γ-ray flux and spectrum from the X-ray binary LS 5039

scientific article published on 26 September 2006

A mechanistic spatio-temporal framework for modelling individual-to-individual transmission-With an application to the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola outbreak.

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Aedes aegypti Control Through Modernized, Integrated Vector Management

scientific article

Assessing the performance of real-time epidemic forecasts: A case study of Ebola in the Western Area region of Sierra Leone, 2014-15

scholarly article by Sebastian Funk et al published February 2019 in PLOS Computational Biology

Assessing the performance of real-time epidemic forecasts: A case study of the 2013-16 Ebola epidemic

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

Association between recruitment methods and attrition in Internet-based studies

scientific article

Choices and trade-offs in inference with infectious disease models

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Combining serological and contact data to derive target immunity levels for achieving and maintaining measles elimination

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Comparative Analysis of Dengue and Zika Outbreaks Reveals Differences by Setting and Virus

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2016)

Comparative analysis of dengue and Zika outbreaks reveals differences by setting and virus

article

Comparative analysis of the risks of hospitalisation and death associated with SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants in England: a cohort study

Comparing human and model-based forecasts of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland

scientific article published on 19 September 2022

Comparing human and model-based forecasts of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland

scientific article published on 5 December 2021

Detecting differential transmissibilities that affect the size of self-limited outbreaks.

scientific article

Determinants of follow-up participation in the Internet-based European influenza surveillance platform Influenzanet

scientific article published on 10 March 2014

Discovery of very high energy γ-ray emission from the BL Lacertae object H 2356-309 with the HESS Cherenkov telescopes

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Disease severity determines health-seeking behaviour amongst individuals with influenza-like illness in an internet-based cohort.

scientific article

Duration of Ebola virus RNA persistence in semen of survivors: population-level estimates and projections

scientific article

Dynamic Landscape of Mpox Importation Risks Driven by Heavy-Tailed Sexual Contact Networks Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in 2022

scientific article published on 28 August 2024

Dynamic landscape of mpox importation risks driven by heavy-tailed sexual contact networks among men who have sex with men in 2022: a mathematical modeling study

scientific article published on 6 October 2023

Early dynamics of transmission and control of 2019-nCoV: a mathematical modelling study

scientific article published on 2 February 2020

Early dynamics of transmission and control of COVID-19: a mathematical modelling study

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1976-2014

scientific article

Ebola: the power of behaviour change.

scientific article

Effectiveness of Ring Vaccination as Control Strategy for Ebola Virus Disease

scientific article

Endemic disease, awareness, and local behavioural response.

scientific article published on 23 February 2010

Energy dependent γ-ray morphology in the pulsar wind nebula HESS J1825–137

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Estimating contact-adjusted immunity levels against measles in South Korea and prospects for maintaining elimination status

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Estimating the overdispersion in COVID-19 transmission using outbreak sizes outside China

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Estimating the probability of demonstrating vaccine efficacy in the declining Ebola epidemic: a Bayesian modelling approach.

scientific article

Estimating the time-varying reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 using national and subnational case counts

Estimation of Rift Valley fever virus spillover to humans during the Mayotte 2018-2019 epidemic

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Estimation of the quality of life effect of seasonal influenza infection in the UK with the internet-based Flusurvey cohort: an observational cohort study

scientific article published in November 2013

Evaluation of individual and ensemble probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the United States

scientific article published in 2022

Evaluation of the benefits and risks of introducing Ebola community care centers, Sierra Leone

scientific article published in March 2015

Factors Associated With Measles Transmission in the United States During the Postelimination Era

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Fine-scale family structure shapes influenza transmission risk in households: Insights from primary schools in Matsumoto city, 2014/15

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

First detection of a VHE gamma-ray spectral maximum from a cosmic source: HESS discovery of the Vela X nebula

scientific article published on 24 February 2006

First ground-based measurement of atmospheric Cherenkov light from cosmic rays

scientific article published on 22 February 2007

Five challenges in evolution and infectious diseases

scientific article published on 18 December 2014

Genomic and epidemiological monitoring of yellow fever virus transmission potential

scientific article published in Science

Genomic and epidemiological monitoring of yellow fever virus transmission potential

article

Heavy-tailed sexual contact networks and monkeypox epidemiology in the global outbreak, 2022

scientific article published on 7 October 2022

High Zika Virus Seroprevalence in Salvador, Northeastern Brazil Limits the Potential for Further Outbreaks

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Identifying transmission cycles at the human-animal interface: the role of animal reservoirs in maintaining gambiense human african trypanosomiasis

scientific article

Impact of public health responses during a measles outbreak in an Amish community in Ohio: modelling the dynamics of transmission

scientific article published on 7 April 2018

Implication of backward contact tracing in the presence of overdispersed transmission in COVID-19 outbreaks

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Incidence and risk factors for influenza-like-illness in the UK: online surveillance using Flusurvey

scientific article

Inferring the number of COVID-19 cases from recently reported deaths

scientific article (preprint)

Inferring the number of COVID-19 cases from recently reported deaths

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Interacting epidemics on overlay networks

scientific article

Mapping Ebola in wild animals for better disease control

scientific article

Mathematical Modeling of Programmatic Requirements for Yaws Eradication

scientific article

Measuring the impact of Ebola control measures in Sierra Leone

scientific article

Measuring the unknown: An estimator and simulation study for assessing case reporting during epidemics

scientific article published on 23 May 2022

Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Modelling the influence of human behaviour on the spread of infectious diseases: a review

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

Nine challenges in incorporating the dynamics of behaviour in infectious diseases models

scientific article published on 28 September 2014

Nine challenges in modelling the emergence of novel pathogens

scientific article

Observations of the Crab nebula with HESS

scientific article published on 12 September 2006

On the fallibility of simulation models in informing pandemic responses - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Outbreak analytics: a developing data science for informing the response to emerging pathogens.

scientific article

Potential for large outbreaks of Ebola virus disease

scientific article

Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt

scientific article published on 20 June 2020

Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Primary particle acceleration above 100 TeV in the shell-type supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with deep HESS observations

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Probabilistic reconstruction of measles transmission clusters from routinely collected surveillance data

scientific article published on 16 February 2020

Probabilistic reconstruction of measles transmission clusters from routinely collected surveillance data

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Projecting the end of the Zika virus epidemic in Latin America: a modelling analysis

article

Quantifying trends in disease impact to produce a consistent and reproducible definition of an emerging infectious disease

scientific article

Real-time analysis of the diphtheria outbreak in forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh

scholarly article by Flavio Finger et al published 12 March 2019 in BMC Medicine

Real-time dynamic modelling for the design of a cluster-randomized phase 3 Ebola vaccine trial in Sierra Leone.

scientific article

Real-time forecasting of infectious disease dynamics with a stochastic semi-mechanistic model

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Reconstruction and prediction of viral disease epidemics

scientific article published on 05 November 2018

Routine childhood immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: a benefit-risk analysis of health benefits versus excess risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

SOCRATES: An online tool leveraging a social contact data sharing initiative to assess mitigation strategies for COVID-19

scientific article (preprint)

SOCRATES: an online tool leveraging a social contact data sharing initiative to assess mitigation strategies for COVID-19

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Scoring epidemiological forecasts on transformed scales

scientific article published on 24 January 2023

Seven challenges for modelling indirect transmission: vector-borne diseases, macroparasites and neglected tropical diseases

scientific article

Seven challenges in modeling vaccine preventable diseases.

scientific article

Six challenges in the eradication of infectious diseases

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

Spatial and temporal dynamics of superspreading events in the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

Stability in flux: community structure in dynamic networks ⬇️

scientific article published on December 2010

Tailoring Immunization Programmes: using patient file data to explore vaccination uptake and associated factors

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Target immunity levels for achieving and maintaining measles elimination

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

Temporal Changes in Ebola Transmission in Sierra Leone and Implications for Control Requirements: a Real-time Modelling Study

scientific article

The COVID-19 response illustrates that traditional academic reward structures and metrics do not reflect crucial contributions to modern science

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

The Talk of the Town: Modelling the Spread of Information and Changes in Behaviour

scientific article published on 28 November 2012

The contribution of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections to transmission - a model-based analysis of the Diamond Princess outbreak

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

The contribution of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections to transmission on the Diamond Princess cruise ship

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

The contribution of pre-symptomatic infection to the transmission dynamics of COVID-2019

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

The impact of control strategies and behavioural changes on the elimination of Ebola from Lofa County, Liberia

scientific article (publication date: 10 April 2017)

The impact of passive case detection on the transmission dynamics of gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis

scientific article published on 6 April 2018

The measles crisis in Europe-the need for a joined-up approach

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

The relative fitness of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a modelling study of household transmission in Peru

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

The relative fitness of drug-resistant : a modelling study of household transmission in Peru

article

The spread of awareness and its impact on epidemic outbreaks

scientific article

The transmissibility of novel Coronavirus in the early stages of the 2019-20 outbreak in Wuhan: Exploring initial point-source exposure sizes and durations using scenario analysis

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Transmission Dynamics of Zika Virus in Island Populations: A Modelling Analysis of the 2013–14 French Polynesia Outbreak

scientific article

Updated estimate of the duration of the meningo-encephalitic stage in gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

scientific article published on 4 July 2015

Using network theory to identify the causes of disease outbreaks of unknown origin

scientific article

Using network theory to identify the causes of disease outbreaks of unknown origin

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Using paired serology and surveillance data to quantify dengue transmission and control during a large outbreak in Fiji

Using the internet to estimate influenza vaccine effectiveness

scientific article published in September 2012

What settings have been linked to SARS-CoV-2 transmission clusters?

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Word usage mirrors community structure in the online social network Twitter

scientific article published on 25 February 2013

List of works by Sebastian Funk

"Pathogen Eradication" and "Emerging Pathogens": Difficult Definitions in Cystic Fibrosis

3.9 day orbital modulation in the TeV γ-ray flux and spectrum from the X-ray binary LS 5039

A mechanistic spatio-temporal framework for modelling individual-to-individual transmission-With an application to the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola outbreak.

Aedes aegypti Control Through Modernized, Integrated Vector Management

Assessing the performance of real-time epidemic forecasts: A case study of Ebola in the Western Area region of Sierra Leone, 2014-15

Assessing the performance of real-time epidemic forecasts: A case study of the 2013-16 Ebola epidemic

Association between recruitment methods and attrition in Internet-based studies

Choices and trade-offs in inference with infectious disease models

Combining serological and contact data to derive target immunity levels for achieving and maintaining measles elimination

Comparative Analysis of Dengue and Zika Outbreaks Reveals Differences by Setting and Virus

Comparative analysis of dengue and Zika outbreaks reveals differences by setting and virus

Comparative analysis of the risks of hospitalisation and death associated with SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants in England: a cohort study

Comparing human and model-based forecasts of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland

Comparing human and model-based forecasts of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland

Detecting differential transmissibilities that affect the size of self-limited outbreaks.

Determinants of follow-up participation in the Internet-based European influenza surveillance platform Influenzanet

Discovery of very high energy γ-ray emission from the BL Lacertae object H 2356-309 with the HESS Cherenkov telescopes

Disease severity determines health-seeking behaviour amongst individuals with influenza-like illness in an internet-based cohort.

Duration of Ebola virus RNA persistence in semen of survivors: population-level estimates and projections

Dynamic Landscape of Mpox Importation Risks Driven by Heavy-Tailed Sexual Contact Networks Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in 2022

Dynamic landscape of mpox importation risks driven by heavy-tailed sexual contact networks among men who have sex with men in 2022: a mathematical modeling study

Early dynamics of transmission and control of 2019-nCoV: a mathematical modelling study

Early dynamics of transmission and control of COVID-19: a mathematical modelling study

Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1976-2014

Ebola: the power of behaviour change.

Effectiveness of Ring Vaccination as Control Strategy for Ebola Virus Disease

Endemic disease, awareness, and local behavioural response.

Energy dependent γ-ray morphology in the pulsar wind nebula HESS J1825–137

Estimating contact-adjusted immunity levels against measles in South Korea and prospects for maintaining elimination status

Estimating the overdispersion in COVID-19 transmission using outbreak sizes outside China

Estimating the probability of demonstrating vaccine efficacy in the declining Ebola epidemic: a Bayesian modelling approach.

Estimating the time-varying reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 using national and subnational case counts

Estimation of Rift Valley fever virus spillover to humans during the Mayotte 2018-2019 epidemic

Estimation of the quality of life effect of seasonal influenza infection in the UK with the internet-based Flusurvey cohort: an observational cohort study

Evaluation of individual and ensemble probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the United States

Evaluation of the benefits and risks of introducing Ebola community care centers, Sierra Leone

Factors Associated With Measles Transmission in the United States During the Postelimination Era

Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts

Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 - Authors' reply

Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts

Fine-scale family structure shapes influenza transmission risk in households: Insights from primary schools in Matsumoto city, 2014/15

First detection of a VHE gamma-ray spectral maximum from a cosmic source: HESS discovery of the Vela X nebula

First ground-based measurement of atmospheric Cherenkov light from cosmic rays

Five challenges in evolution and infectious diseases

Genomic and epidemiological monitoring of yellow fever virus transmission potential

Genomic and epidemiological monitoring of yellow fever virus transmission potential

Heavy-tailed sexual contact networks and monkeypox epidemiology in the global outbreak, 2022

High Zika Virus Seroprevalence in Salvador, Northeastern Brazil Limits the Potential for Further Outbreaks

Identifying transmission cycles at the human-animal interface: the role of animal reservoirs in maintaining gambiense human african trypanosomiasis

Impact of public health responses during a measles outbreak in an Amish community in Ohio: modelling the dynamics of transmission

Implication of backward contact tracing in the presence of overdispersed transmission in COVID-19 outbreaks

Incidence and risk factors for influenza-like-illness in the UK: online surveillance using Flusurvey

Inferring the number of COVID-19 cases from recently reported deaths

Inferring the number of COVID-19 cases from recently reported deaths

Interacting epidemics on overlay networks

Mapping Ebola in wild animals for better disease control

Mathematical Modeling of Programmatic Requirements for Yaws Eradication

Measuring the impact of Ebola control measures in Sierra Leone

Measuring the unknown: An estimator and simulation study for assessing case reporting during epidemics

Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health

Modelling the influence of human behaviour on the spread of infectious diseases: a review

Nine challenges in incorporating the dynamics of behaviour in infectious diseases models

Nine challenges in modelling the emergence of novel pathogens

Observations of the Crab nebula with HESS

On the fallibility of simulation models in informing pandemic responses - Authors' reply

Outbreak analytics: a developing data science for informing the response to emerging pathogens.

Potential for large outbreaks of Ebola virus disease

Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt

Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt

Primary particle acceleration above 100 TeV in the shell-type supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with deep HESS observations

Probabilistic reconstruction of measles transmission clusters from routinely collected surveillance data

Probabilistic reconstruction of measles transmission clusters from routinely collected surveillance data

Projecting the end of the Zika virus epidemic in Latin America: a modelling analysis

Quantifying trends in disease impact to produce a consistent and reproducible definition of an emerging infectious disease

Real-time analysis of the diphtheria outbreak in forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh

Real-time dynamic modelling for the design of a cluster-randomized phase 3 Ebola vaccine trial in Sierra Leone.

Real-time forecasting of infectious disease dynamics with a stochastic semi-mechanistic model

Reconstruction and prediction of viral disease epidemics

Routine childhood immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: a benefit-risk analysis of health benefits versus excess risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection