Hill Lab @ University of Toronto
We moved! As of July 2025, I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Website updates to follow soon.
My team and I develop mathematical models and computational tools to help understand, predict, and treat infectious diseases. We have worked on a broad range of topics including HIV/AIDS, SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, RSV, antibiotic-resistant infections, bed bugs infestations, cancer-causing viruses, anti-viral immune responses, and novel immunotherapeutics. Our research spans infection dynamics both within individual patients and across populations. We are particularly interested in the role of pathogen evolution in disease pathogenesis and escape from therapeutics.
I received my undergraduate degree was in physics from Queen’s University, Canada. My PhD was through Harvard’s Biophysics Program and I was a joint graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health-Sciences and Technology (HST)’s Medical Engineering and Medical Physics program. After graduating, I received an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, which allowed me to start my own research group in Harvard's Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and become a member of the John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellows program. During this time I also completed my MPH and the Global Infectious Diseases Program at Harvard School of Public Health. I was also a member of the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity program run by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
Prior to moving to Toronto, I was an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and a core faculty member at their Institute for Computational Medicine and Infectious Disease Dynamics Group. I still maintain an affiliation there.
We are recruiting trainess at all levels! More info to follow soon.