Emma B. Hodcroft

Emma Hodcroft (born 1986) is a British-American molecular epidemiologist at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on the phylogenetics of viruses and other pathogens, mapping the spread and evolution of different genetic variants. Hodcroft is a developer on the Nextstrain project, an open science project that tracks the transmission chains of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens. In 2020, she originated CoVariants.org, a project tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants.