Alessandro Zulli

Alessandro Zulli is a research engineer at Stanford University, specializing in environmental health and infectious disease surveillance. He earned his PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale University in 2023, where he led groundbreaking work on wastewater-based epidemiology during the COVID-19 pandemic. His research encompasses the development of novel molecular methods for detecting various pathogens, including H5N1, RSV, and Dengue virus, as well as the creation of sophisticated bioinformatics pipelines for environmental metagenomics. His work highlights how environmental surveillance can be leveraged to generate actionable insights in lower-middle income countries and other resource limited areas.