<commit_before>---
date: 2021-01-30T19:36:23+02:00
firstname: "Nena"
lastname: "Bollen"
abbrv: "<NAME>"
mail: "<EMAIL>"
past: false
phone: "+32 16 37 43 17"
portrait: /images/portraits/nena.png
position: "PhD Student (co-supervision G. Baele, KU Leuven)"
ref: "nbollen"
since: "2020"
title: "<NAME>"
interests:
  - "Public health"
  - "Epidemiology"
  - "Viral phylogeography"
  - "Visualisation"
---

## Biographical sketch
<NAME> holds a master's degree in bio-statistics from the KULeuven. Her interest in public health was sparked (a bit unconventionally) during her bachelor’s degree in sociology, where she became fascinated by how social factors can influence health on a population level. This interest has grown from social epidemiology to epidemiology in general, finding a niche in the study of infectious diseases. Her field of study lies in estimating viral spread using phylogeographic models. She also has a fondness for data visualisation projects.

## PhD project
In 2020, Nena started a PhD co-supervised by [<NAME>](https://rega.kuleuven.be/cev/ecv/staff-members/00075702) at the Evolutionary and Computational Virology Lab (KU Leuven) and [Simon Dellicour](https://spell.ulb.be/person/simon-dellicour/) at the Spatial Epidemiology Lab (ULB).<commit_msg>Update nena-bollen.md<commit_after>---
date: 2021-01-30T19:36:23+02:00
firstname: "Nena"
lastname: "Bollen"
abbrv: "<NAME>"
mail: "<EMAIL>"
past: false
phone: "+32 16 37 43 17"
portrait: /images/portraits/nena.png
position: "PhD Student (co-supervision G. Baele, KU Leuven)"
ref: "nbollen"
title: "<NAME>"
interests:
  - "Public health"
  - "Epidemiology"
  - "Viral phylogeography"
  - "Visualisation"
---

## Biographical sketch

<NAME> holds a master's degree in bio-statistics from the KULeuven. Her interest in public health was sparked (a bit unconventionally) during her bachelor’s degree in sociology, where she became fascinated by how social factors can influence health on a population level. This interest has grown from social epidemiology to epidemiology in general, finding a niche in the study of infectious diseases. Her field of study lies in estimating viral spread using phylogeographic models. She also has a fondness for data visualisation projects.

## PhD project

In 2020, Nena started a PhD co-supervised by [<NAME>](https://rega.kuleuven.be/cev/ecv/staff-members/00075702) at the Evolutionary and Computational Virology Lab (KU Leuven) and [<NAME>](https://spell.ulb.be/person/simon-dellicour/) at the Spatial Epidemiology Lab (ULB).
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