Chadi Saad-Roy

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, split evenly between the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and a core member of the PrePARE Research Cluster. I am also a member of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, and of the Biodiversity Research Centre.

Broadly, I am interested in infectious disease dynamics across scales. My focal areas of research are on mathematical models for immuno-epidemiology, behavioral-epidemiological dynamics, and pathogen eco-evolutionary dynamics.

From 2022-2025, I was a Miller Research Fellow at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science of UC Berkeley.

In 2022, I received a Ph.D. in Quantitative and Computational Biology at Princeton University, and I was very fortunate to be advised by Bryan T. Grenfell, Simon A. Levin, and Ned S. Wingreen. The title of my Ph.D. thesis is “Eco-evolutionary impacts on the dynamics and control of infectious diseases”. During my graduate studies, I was lucky to have been supported by a Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada as well as an Honorific Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship of Princeton University.

Before that, I completed a B.Sc. with an Honours in Combined Mathematics and Statistics and a Minor in Biology at the University of Victoria, and was awarded the Jubilee Medal for Science. I had the wonderful opportunity to have held research assistantships where I worked with Pauline van den Driessche.

The Saad-Roy Lab is part of the Prepare for Pandemics through Advanced Research in Evolution (PrePARE) Cluster.

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