Joshua Weitz

Joshua S. Weitz is a Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland where he holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics. Prof. Weitz directs an interdisciplinary group focusing on understanding how viruses transform human and environmental health. Weitz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a Simons Foundation Investigator in Theoretical Physics of Living Systems.

Weitz has authored 'Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), a textbook and computational lab guide series on Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics Across Cells, Organisms, and Populations (Princeton University Press, 2024, with companions in R, Python, and MATLAB), and an award-winning book on Quantitative Viral Ecology (Princeton University Press, 2015).

As for 2026, Weitz recommends that readers interested in his work purchase their copies directly via JHU or PUP Press, at university bookstores, or at a local bookstore.