Dr Florian M. Marx, MD, MSc, PhD
Research Group Leader, Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
Research Fellow, South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Dr. Florian Marx is a physician-scientist, infectious disease epidemiologist, and mathematical modeler at the Department of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital. He is an Emmy Noether Research Group Leader funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), with a focus on modeling, impact assessment, and health-economic evaluation to inform global strategies against tuberculosis (TB) and other infectious diseases. With over a decade of experience, his work integrates epidemiological research with mathematical modeling and health-economic analysis to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of novel diagnostics and other interventions, particularly in high-risk populations and settings. His current research includes a 6-year project funded by the DFG aimed at identifying strategies for optimizing outcomes of routine TB treatment using causal inference and mathematical modeling, and a project using modeling to estimate the population-level impact of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s R&D and delivery portfolio for TB in South Africa. He is also co-investigator and lead for the health-economic component of the TSwaY study, a multi-country implementation study funded by the Gates Foundation aimed at evaluating tongue swab-based testing for TB.