Contact Info
Lauren M. Childs
Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Office: 436 McBryde Hall, 311-C Steger Hall
Email: lchilds [at] vt [dot] edu
Phone: 540-231-8265
2023 - 2024 Michler Award Recipient
Professional Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
- August 2022 - present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
- August 2016 - August 2022
- Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
- November 2015 - August 2016
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Williams College
- January 2016 - June 2016
- MIDAS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
- November 2012 - November 2015
- Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics and School of Biology, Georgia Tech
- September 2010 - October 2012
Education
- Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, May 2010
- Masters in Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, May 2007
- B.S. in Mathematics and Chemistry, Duke University, May 2004
Conferences of Interest
Brin Mathematics Research Center Workshop:
- Mathematics of Malaria Transmission Dynamics
- November 13 - 17, 2023
American Institute of Mathematics Workshop:
- Multi-scale modeling of malaria
- April 10 - 14, 2023
AMS Mathematics Research Community, Early Career Program:
- Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: Ecological Models Across Multiple Scales
- May 30 - June 5, 2021
Originally May 31 - June 6, 2020
MORE - Mathematics - Opportunities in Research and Education Conference:
- MORE 2023 held at Clemson University on October 21-22 2023
- MORE 2022 held at Virginia Tech on October 8-9, 2022
- STRIVE for MORE 2021 held virtually on September 25, 2021
- STRIVE for MORE 2020 held virtually on September 26, 2020
- MORE 2019 held at Virginia Tech on October 26-27, 2019
Press and Annoucements
- VT News on Health Affairs Article
- February 5, 2024
- A Health Odyssey Podcast
- January 23, 2024
- VT News on Pandemic Preparedness Destination Area Funding
- August 21, 2023
- August 17, 2023
- Spring 2023
- March 9, 2023
- AWM Michler Award Annuoncement
- February 13, 2023
- College of Science Instagram Highlight on NSF CAREER Award
- June 8, 2022
- VTx News article on Promotions and Tenure
- June 7, 2022
- VTx News article on NSF CAREER Award
- April 19, 2022
- VTx News article on Teaching about COVID
- February 1, 2022
- VTx News article on EEID Grant
- September 27, 2021
- VT News article on Outstanding Undergraduate Research including Lizzi Duncan
- May 24, 2021
- AMS News article on MRC on Infectious Disease Dynamics
- May 4, 2021
- VT News article on work in PLOS Pathogens on malaria transmission with multiple mosquito blood feeds
- February 23, 2021
- BugBitten Blog on work in PLOS Pathogens on malaria transmission with multiple mosquito blood feeds
- January 22, 2021
- Science Daily article on work in PLOS Pathogens on malaria transmission with multiple mosquito blood feeds
- December 31, 2020
- NPR article on work on COVID on College Campuses
- October 26, 2020
- Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellowship Announcement
- October 25, 2020
- College of Science Annual Magazine story on COVID response.
- September 21, 2020
- VT News article on COVID-19 Modeling Taskforce.
- August 31, 2020
- VT News article on group to tackle infectious disease.
- August 27, 2020
- VT News article on NSF RAPID grant related to testing for COVID-19.
- July 27, 2020
- WRADradio interview on work in the Lancet Infectious Diseases and SIAM News on COVID-19 interventions
- July 6, 2020
- Moderator for Predictive Analytics Meets Pandemic Webinar
- June 24, 2020
- NPR article on work in the Lancet Infectious Diseases and SIAM News on COVID-19 interventions
- June 10, 2020
- WSLS article on work in the Lancet Infectious Diseases and SIAM News on COVID-19 interventions
- May 14, 2020
- Southwest Times article on work in the Lancet Infectious Diseases and SIAM News on COVID-19 interventions
- May 13, 2020
- Highlighted in the State of the College Address
- September 20, 2019
- VT News article on work in Nature on using anti-malarials in mosquitoes
- March 8, 2019
- Forbes article on work in Nature on using anti-malarials in mosquitoes
- February 27, 2019
- NPR article on work in Nature on using anti-malarials in mosquitoes
- February 27, 2019
- Telegraph article on work in Nature on using anti-malarials in mosquitoes
- February 27, 2019
- VT Seed grant for transdisciplinary work
- November 29, 2018
- Steven Strogatz in J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series
- October 30-31, 2018
- ICSB Conference
- August 6-12, 2017
- VT Press Release on work in PLoS Pathogens on novel mosquito control
- January 18, 2017
- Featured publication in PLoS Pathogens - Harvard Press Release
- December 16, 2016
- Appointment in Mathematics Department - VT News Feature
- November 7, 2016
