The project
Stenseth and three international collaborators have been awarded ten million euros over a period of six years for the project "Reconstructing the environmental, biological, and societal drivers of plague outbreaks in Eurasia between 1300 and 1900 CE (Synergy-Plague)". The aim of the project is to reconstruct the environmental, biological and societal drivers behind plague outbreaks in Eurasia between 1300 and 1900 AD. - We will bring new modelling approaches, experimental work, and climate and soil conditions into plague research, Stenseth explains in an interview in Titan (in Norwegian only).
Center for Pandemics and One-Health Research (P1H)
The project will be closely linked to P1H, but will be based at the Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
This grant shows the importance of a broad persptive over infectious diseases in pandemic research and will strengthen the research capacity at the relatively new P1H center at SUSTAINIT.
Read the interview with Stenseth about the project at Titan.uio.no (in Norwegian only).
Read more about the scientific questions the project will address at Stenseth's profile page.
The PIs
Stenseth is the corresponding PI with the following three co-PIs:
Florent Sebbane, INSERM, Lille, France
Philip Slavin, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
Ulf Büntgen, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge, UK