Rate My Professor Matt Keeling

Professor Matt Keeling holds a joint professorship in the Mathematics Institute and School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, where he has advanced from Lecturer in 2002 and Reader in 2005 to Professor since 2007. He earned a B.A. in Mathematics in 1991, a Master in Mathematics in 1992, and a PhD in Mathematical Modelling in 1995. Currently, he directs the Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER), co-directs the JUNIPER partnership, and serves as Deputy Director of the MathSys Centre for Doctoral Training. Keeling has held fellowships including the Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 1998 to 2006 and the Wellcome Trust Fellowship from 1995 to 1998.

Keeling's research utilizes mathematics, statistics, and computational methods to model infectious disease dynamics, evolution, and ecology, informing policy on epidemic control and vaccination. His work addresses diseases in humans such as COVID-19, measles, influenza, HPV, and neglected tropical diseases, and in animals including foot-and-mouth disease and bovine tuberculosis. He contributed to responses for the 2001 and 2009 foot-and-mouth outbreaks, 2009 swine flu, and COVID-19, serving on SPI-M since 2008, JCVI from 2010 to 2022, and NERVTAG since 2023. Key publications include 'Dynamics of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Epidemic: Stochastic Dispersal...' (2001), 'Modelling Vaccination Strategies against Foot and Mouth Disease' (2003), 'Optimal reactive vaccination strategies for a foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK' (2006), 'A dynamic model of bovine tuberculosis spread and control in Great Britain' (2014), and 'Vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a mathematical modelling study' (2021). With an H-index of 74 and over 25,000 citations, his contributions have shaped public health strategies. Awards include the OBE for services to SAGE during COVID-19 (2021), Weldon Prize to SPI-MO (2022), Scientific Medal from the Royal Zoological Society of London (2007), and Philip Leverhulme Prize in Mathematics (2005).