Sirus Rasti has been a visiting student at the Complexity Science Hub since January 2026.

His research interests focus on the holistic processes shaping biodiversity patterns, health of ecosystems and ecological networks. Within the Health across Species research group, he contributes to the analysis of the „zoonotic web“ where he studies the maintenance of pathogen reservoirs and works on ways to predict potential novel transmission chains and estimate risk of zoonotic spillover.

He got his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Uni Halle, Germany in Biology. In his master thesis he studied how honey bees shape the structure of natural plant-pollinator networks and what affects the dynamics of pathogen transmission within them.

Before joining CSH, he has been working at Trinity College Dublin in epidemic modeling and the development of methods for link prediction in networks. He is currently contemplating whether or not to pursue a PhD.