Amanda Perofsky

Amanda Perofsky is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Health Sciences at Bouvé College, with joint appointments in the Roux Institute, Network Science Institute, and Institute for Experiential AI. Perofsky is a computational biologist whose research focuses on the ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral drivers of infectious disease dynamics, with aims to improve disease surveillance and better understand and predict future outbreaks. Specifically, she combines statistical, mathematical, and computational approaches to investigate respiratory virus transmission patterns and epidemiology, with a focus on influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and RSV. She also produces operational forecasts and scenario projections of respiratory virus outbreaks.

Prior to joining Northeastern, Perofsky worked as a research scientist with the Seattle Flu Study at the University of Washington and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health. She received her PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied how social network structure shapes the gut microbiomes of wild lemurs in Madagascar.