Sara Del Valle
Sara Yemimah De Valle | |
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| Alma mater | New Jersey Institute of Technology (BS, MS) University of Iowa (Ph.D) |
| Known for | Epidemiology modeling |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Thesis | Effects of behavioral changes and mixing patterns in mathematical models for smallpox epidemics (2005) |
Sara Yemimah Del Valle is a senior scientist and mathematical epidemiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Named as a 2024 Laboratory Fellow, Del Valle leads the Los Alamos Laboratory Fusion Team, where she combines internet data with satellite imagery to forecast disease outbreaks. During the COVID-19 pandemic Del Valle created a computational model that could predict the spread of COVID-19 around the United States.