Felicia Bongiovanni

PhD Candidate | The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

I am a final year PhD candidate at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research where my research focuses on building statistical frameworks to both understand the antibody response to infection and to estimate time-since-infection for use as a diagnostic or epidemiological tool.

  • Infectious disease modelling
  • Bayesian statistics
  • Serology
  • Immunology
  • Epidemiology

Research experience

2023 – Present
PhD Candidate
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Feb 2025 – April 2025
Visiting Researcher
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
2020-2021
Research Student
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Education

2023 – Present
Doctor of Philosophy
The University of Melbourne
2020 – 2021
Master of Science (Bioinformatics) (with Distinction)
The University of Melbourne
2016-2018
Bachelor of Science
The University of Melbourne