My name is Lisa Hefele and I am an epidemiologist currently based in Amsterdam.
- 🎓 B.Sc. Biology | M.Sc. Molecular Biosciences | PhD Nature Sciences (Dr. rer. nat) | Postgraduate certificate in epidemiology
- 📄 Policy Associate at Infectious Disease Alliance
- 👩🔬 Independent Consultant | Former positions: Postdoctoral fellow at the Luxembourg Institute of Health 🇱🇺 & Visiting scientist at the Institut Pasteur du Laos 🇱🇦
- 💙 Committee member: LuxDoc - Luxembourg's Young Researchers Association (Vice-President 2022-2023; 2025)
- 🤝 Member of the eLife Ambassadors programme (research transparency, research culture)
My research focus and interests:
- 🔥 Applied epidemiology, fieldwork
- 🔍 Infectious diseases, surveillance, mother & child health
- 📈 Data analysis & visualization
- 📶 Digital data collection
- 🖥️ R (advanced), Stata (occasionally), Python and Julia (beginner)
- 👩🏫 Teaching, capacity strengthening
- 🗂️ Research data management, reproducible research