Simon Cauchemez#
| Membership Number: | 7254 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/mathematical-modelling-of-infectious-diseases/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9186-4549 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Professor, Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2013 - 2023 Research Director, Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2013 Reader in Statistical Infectious Disease Epidemiology, in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London
- 2011 - 2013 Senior Lecturer in Statistical Infectious Disease Epidemiology, in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London
- 2007 - 2012 RCUK Research Fellow in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London
- 2005 - 2007 Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Infectious disease modelling
- Study of transmission
- Infectious disease control
- Public health
- Epidemic forecasting
- Statistics
- Quantitative epidemiology
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the French Legion of Honor)
- 2022 Subvention scientifique Del Duca, Académie des sciences, budget : 120k €
- 2021 Award Lucien Tartois, Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, budget: 20k€
- 2020 Award Lacassagne, Collège de France, budget : 6k €
- 2019 Award Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy, Académie des Sciences, 1.5k €
- 2017 Award Thérèse Lebrasseur, Fondation de France, budget: 50k €
- 2017 - 2019 Chaire of Excellence Elie Metchnikoff, Institut Pasteur
- 2015 Grand Prix Robert Debré 2015, budget: 50k €
- 2015 - 2019 AXA Award “Pandemic risk in Asia”, award designed to support mid-career researchers with extremely high potential for innovation in their fields, budget: 250k €
- 2009 Promising Investigator Award, Options for the control of Influenza VII, Hong Kong
- 2006 Guy & Suzy Halimi Award, Chancellerie des Universités de Paris




