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Martin is a boy with diverse thought activity but a fondness of details. The two powers are in constant struggle contrains his potential. He loves music, film and travelling and all the highs awarded from this devotion. He loves his hometown Stockholm who also loves him back. An awareness of current events, talking about himself in third person and gratitude for all the time he spends with his major source of joy, Jannike, who shares his propensity for sleep to an even higher degree, are other defining traits of this artefact.

Born in Malmö his family moved to Bahrain when he was six, returning at age 10, granting him a humanist disposal to other beings and a semi-international identity. His father passed away when he was 7 years old. From the age of 9 he started pursuing the goal of graduating from engineering physics in KTH. In no hurry, this was achieved in 2005. From there the famed banana peal carried him to the Swedish Institute for Disease Control where he works hard with epidemic models, the next goal being a doctoral degree. Luckily he enjoys his work a great deal.

Martin is not uncomplicated, at times a know-it-all and more independant than what's good for him. But generally he likes everybody at first glance, is gentle and easy to get along with, though notoriously awful at keeping in touch.

Concluding my obituary I will write, "Martin was born April 11, 1978".

Updated 2006-12-14.

25000	Saved emails since 1996.
23	Size of flat in square meters.
2	People living in it.
29	Countries visited.
5	Continents visited come next fall, when Australia is due.
2	Countries left starting with an 'I' (Irak and Ireland).
204	Take offs.
1508	Movies seen and graded at filmtipset.se.
216	Of which seen at a cinema.
112	Combined running time in days.
2.84	Mean grade.
3	Daily visits on my blogs.
361	Ego google hit count.
15	Months spent in military service (Army, Boden)

Being a child of my era, I can be contacted in a huge number of ways. On filmtipset I am known as camitz. On lunarstorm as alumas but I never go there. I can be e-emailed at currently 12 adresses, all regularly checked. You can call me by workphone, home phone, mobile phone or visit me either at my home on Södermalm or at work at SMI. My mobile can read text-messages and has a voice mail. Both my home and work also have regular mailboxes. Finally, you can include me in your network at linkedin.com or chat with me on google talk and msn.

Being a child of my era I would never dream of disclosing all that info here. Establishment of contact emanates from a first e-mail to the following highly spammable adress:

As a scientist and phd-student I work at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control. I am also linked to Karolinska and Stockholm University. My field is epidemiology and epidemic models in particular. As such I'm a member of s-gem a group of similarly minded from which I draw most of my knowledge.

Pursuing this line in Sweden is fortuitous due to abundance of social data. Using survey data on the travel habits of Swedes I built a model simulating the spread of a SARS-like disease. In collaboration with other s-gem members I am currently working on a micromodel with individuals represented explicitly with pandemic flu being the goal. Results are due in 2007. I have also produced a static model to estimate hospital load in the event of a pandemic.

Always in the background is my interest in complex networks which comes natural with epidemiology. Most current is a real network of workplace in Sweden. I am constantly attempt to weight, cluster and simulate disease spread on it. The ultimate goal is a strategy for innoculation.

My supervisors are Fredrik Liljros and Johan Giesecke.

Head to s-gem.

StatFlu is the name of a static model as well as a computer software for estimating hospital load in the counties of Sweden in the event of a flu pandemic. Static means that no epidemic simlation takes place. Instead results are extrapolated from past pandemics and epidemics.

Publications in conjunction with the project

Review of static epidemic models.

The StatFlu model.

M. Camitz and F. Liljeros The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of a moderately contagious diseaseBMC Medicine 20064:32

M. CamitzThe effect of travel restrictions on the spread of a highly contagious disease in Sweden which is the masters thesis version of the same paper.

Review of static epidemic models.

The StatFlu model.

Reseförbud kan stoppa epidemier (Svenska Dagbladet, 2006-12-17)

Reseförbud effektivt mot spridning av SARS (Medical Link)

Förbud mot resor hindrar smitta (Dagens medicin)

Reseförbud effektivt mot spridning av SARS (Bulletin.se)

Travel ban could halve SARS spread (New Kerala (!))

Saving Sweden from the Doom that Befell Stockholm (Andart)

I have an album online. Visitors are granted acces to adding pictures you like to top pick.

Go there...

I have two and it makes me a better person. Both were created within days of each other during a blog frenzy. Both relieve me from a constant need to complain and whine. And both are in Swedish.

Jag kittlar tillbaka is about an ongoing dispute with my former telephone operator. They owe me 217kr. The exchange of e-mails between us makes for good reading, I think. Other companies pesturing me also get their share.

Tankesmedjan Camitz is I suppose more active. It get's everything that I think about current events. Occasionaly I get the urge to write to people or just look stuff up. Recently my enquiries are documentet on the blog. As expected, blogging and my enquisitiveness turned out to be mutually catalytic.

At heart, I'm an entrepeneur, or at least I hold some of the traits needed, foremost of which, I'm full of crazy ideas. However I loath selling. I will need a partner lacking that particular virtue.

I run two brands. SimpleTask and Din mamma jobbar inte här. The best things about them is not the brands theselves.

Supposedly dormant but may yet again spring to life and render me economically independant. Helped me through my studies.

Go there.

A very time consuming project which has brought me to fame at my workplace where it is used. The more convenient acronym Dibie is concealed among the letters spelling out the brand name. It is a web based system for scheduling work shifts in the common kitchen using a point system. Works beautifully and is on the verge of release to the national market.

Go there.

2007-01-07 My girlfriend is back from exile in Malmö. Rating: *****

2006-12-14 I'm published. Rating: *****

2006-12-12 This site. Rating: ***

My sister Mirabelle's blog. She writes about her new life in South Korea.

My neice, Maria. 14 år och kvinna.