Tom
Britton
Professor in Mathematical Statistics (Holder
of the Cramér chair)
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Contact details
Telephone: +46 8 154534
Mobile: +46 70 6936314
e-mail: tom.britton math.su.se
Room: E1359, House 1, Albano
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Events
Espidam:
European Summer Program in Infectious Disease
Analysis and Modelling. June 24-28 (2024),
Stockholm
(to be repeated)
Summer
Institute of Statistics and Modeling of
Infectious Diseases (SISMID), Emory University,
US
Covid-19
English:
A
presentation on epidemic models (like covid-19)
A
popular presentation on my research on effects
of immunity on COVID-19
Material
from a course on infectious disease modelling
and analysis given at Stockholm University
summer 2020. 7.5 ECTS, Basic undergraduate
level.
Swedish:
Populärföredrag,
Debattartikel
i SvD 11/3 2020,
Debattartikel
i DN 10/8 2020,
Debattartikel
i SvD 19/9 2021
Teaching
2024/25 school year
-
Soft Skills for Mathematicians (PhD course), 5
ECTS
- Introductory Statistical analysis (bachelor
level in Swedish) 7.5 ECTS. Autumn
- Mathematics and Statistics for infectious
disease outbreaks (Master course) 7.5 ECTS
- Examiner for bachelor theses in
Mathematical statistics, Autumn and Spring
Research interests
My research interests lie in applied probability
models and statistical inference for such, in
particular epidemic models, networks and
applications towards genetics and molecular
biology including phylogenetics.
Erdös number:
2
Our research group on Mathematical modelling of
infectious diseases SU-InfDisMod-group
For further details on my research I refer to my
list of publications and my short CV (or very long cv)
Academic editor for PLoS
Comp Biol
Associate editor for Journal
of Mathematical Biology
Associate editor for JRSS
A (Statistics in Society)
I am currently a board member of the European
Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
(ESMTB)
I am chairman of the Stockholm
Mathematics Center (SMC)
Current financial support
Swedish Research
Council (main call in Mathematical
sciences): 3.6 MSek (PI, 2021-2024)
KA Wallenberg
Foundation. 0.7 MSek (PI 2023-2025). Support for
Guest professor (Gainpaolo Scalia Tomba)
Coauthors
Mathematicians/statisticians
Sven
Erick
Alm, Mikael
Andersson, Håkan
Andersson, Frank
Ball, Niels
Becker, Fanny
Bergström, Jakob
Björnberg, Erik
Broman, Hilde
K Brustad, Mia Deijfen,
Jean-Stéphane
Dhersin, Odo
Diekmann, Mohamed El Khalifi, Martina
Favero, Arnoldo
Frigessi, Hans
Garmo, Federica
Giardina, Felix
Gunther, Elizabeth
Halloran, Disa
Hansson, Hans
Heesterbeek, Thomas
House, Michael
Höhle, Sebastian
Höhna, Valerie
Isham, David
Jacquet, Svante
Janson, David
Juher, Eben
Kenah, Sharon Kuhlman-Berenzon, Theodore
Kypraios, Thomas
Leitner, Lasse
Leskelä, KaYin
Leung, David
Lindenstrand, Martin
Linder, Mathias
Lindholm, Alun
Lloyd, Ira
Longini, Fabio
Lopes, Samuel
Lundqvist, Owen
Lyne, Ingrid Lönnstedt, Jens
Malmros, Anders
Martin-Löf, Naoki Masuda,
Laura
Matrajt, Denis
Mollison, Peter
Neal, Andreas
Nordvall Lagerås, Lorenzo
Pellis, Philip
O'Neill, Desiré Ouedraogo, Etienne
Pardoux, Steven
Riley, Ethan
Romero-Severson, Joan
Saldana, Gianpaolo
Scalia Tomba, Nyimvua Shaban, David
Sirl, Kristoffer
Spricer, Tanya
Stadler, Theresa
Stocks, Bodil
Svennblad, Åke
Svensson, Viet
Chi Tran, Ali Traoré, Pieter
Trapman, Tatyana
Turova, Jacco
Wallinga, Anne Wangombe, Yang
Yang, Dongni
Zhang, Yun
Jun Zhang.
Other scientists
(a selection)
Jan Albert,
Björn Andersson, Cajsa
Anderson, Erik Arner, Peter Arner, Kåre Bremer,
Per Ericson, Per
Erixon, Jonas Frisén, J.P. Huelsenbeck, Fredrik
Liljeros, Xin Lu, Monica
Nordvik, Bengt
Oxelman, Fredrik
Ronquist, Bengt Sennblad, Martti Tammi, Anna
Thorson, Annika Vinnersten, Paul Westermark.
Supervision
Current PhD supervision
Fanny Bergström, accepted 2020
Current Post Doc mentorship
Martina Favero, 2024-
Completed PhD students (main supervisor)
1. Ingrid Lönnstedt, Uppsala University:
Licentiate 2003, PhD September 2005.
2. Bodil Svennblad, Uppsala University: Licentiate
2005, PhD March 2008.
3. Shaban Nyimvua Mbare, Stockholm U and
University of Dar Es Salam, licentiate 2007 (SU),
PhD 2008 (UDES)
4. Mathias
Lindholm, Stockholm U, licentiate 2007, PhD
2008
5. David
Lindenstrand, Stockholm U, accepted 2007.
PhD 2012
6. Sebastian Höhna, Stockholm U, accepted 2009,
PhD 2013
7. Ali Traoré, Université d'Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso. PhD 2016. (Joint main supervisor)
8. Jens Malmros, Stockholm U, accepted 2010, PhD
2016
9. Desiré Ouedraogo, Université d'Ouagadougou, PhD
2017. (Joint main supervisor)
10. Kristoffer
Spricer, Stockholm U, accepted 2012. PhD
2018.
11. Theresa
Stocks, Stockholm U, accepted 2014, PhD 2018
12. Disa Hansson, Stockholm U, accepted 2013, PhD
2019
13. Dongni Zhang, Stockholm U, accepted 2019, PhD
2024
Anne Wangombe, Stockholm U and University of
Nairobi, accepted 2005, licentiate 2009. Finished
Completed Post Doc mentorship:
Pieter Trapman, 2010-2011
Federica
Giardina, 2014-2017
KaYin Leung, 2016-2018
Yun Jun Zhang, 2017-2018
Tony Johansson, 2019-2021
Martina Favero, 2021
Felix Gunther, 2021-2023
Mohamed El Khalifi, 2022-2023
PATHd8: a program for phylogenetic dating
This is based on two papers that appeared in: Molecular
phylogenetics and evolution (2002) 24,
58-65. Systematic
Biology (2007) 56, 741-752. More information
about it is found on the PATHd8 web
page.
Education/CV
Title: PhD, Docent and professor in
Mathematical statistics (PhD: 1996: Stockholm
University. Docent: 1999, Uppsala University.
Promoted professor 2003, Stockholm University,
chair professor 2009, Stockholm University)
Position: Professor in Mathematical
Statistics at the Department of
Mathematics at Stockholm University.
Here you find my short CV and list of publications.
This page was last updated September 16,
2024
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