Yuval is a PhD student with the Global Disease Modelling team, and the Geospatial Health and Development Team at The Kids Research Institute Australia, under the Medical School at UWA with primary supervision of Professor Melissa Penny. Yuval’s PhD project is titled “Advanced computational integration of geostatistical and mathematical models of disease to answer key public health questions”, specifically with a focus on models of malaria. His PhD is supported by a Forrest Research Scholarship, a Research Training Program Stipend scholarship and an Ernest & Evelyn Havill Shacklock HDR Top-Up Scholarship at the University of Western Australia.

Yuval spent a year as a Research Assistant at the Malaria Atlas Project (Geospatial Health and Development Team) in 2024 with a primary role of supporting the Model Development Team in spatiotemporal modelling of malaria prevalence and incidence. His work includes modelling the relationship between child age and malaria prevalence under different circumstances in sub-Saharan Africa.

Yuval has training in Applied Mathematics, graduating with an Honours degree from UWA in 2022. In his Honours thesis he researched the spread of COVID-19 in Western Australia, using mobility data to infer movement of people and to evaluate the vulnerability of WA towns to an outbreak, as well as estimating the vaccination rates that would have allowed WA to suppress the outbreak.