Daniela Rodriguez-Chavez

Daniela Rodriguez-Chavez is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow & Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Berkeley in both the de Valpine and Boettiger labs. Interested in using mathematics and statistics to better understand public health concerns, her dissertation is focused on understanding the spatiotemporal relationships between dengue and zika using dynamical systems and statistical models. 

Admittance Semester/Year and Program

PhD, Fall 2023

Education

B.A. in Mathematics, 2023, Cornell University 

B.S. in Environment & Sustainability, 2023, Cornell University 

Research Lab

Co-advised by Carl Boettiger and Perry de Valpine 

Selected Publications

• de Marez, C., J. Callies, B. Haines, D. Rodriguez-Chavez, and J. Wang, 2023: Observational Constraints on the Submesoscale Sea Surface Height Variance of Balanced Motion. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 53, 1221–1235, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0188.1

• Lee, S., D. Rodriguez-Chavez, and J. Rzeszotarski, 2023: Exploring the Effects of Personal Impact Communicated Through Eco-Feedback Technology for Reducing Food Waste. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E., Soares, M.M. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14030. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35699-5_39

Selected Presentations

• Testing theories of cross-immunity and cross-reactivity on mosquito-borne diseases using a dynamical systems approach, Epidemics, Dec. 2 2025. San Diego, CA

• Testing theories of cross-immunity and cross-reactivity on mosquito-borne diseases using a dynamical systems approach, EEID, June 17 2025. Notre Dame, IN

• Assessing the Correlation Between Spring Bird Migrations and West Nile Virus, Los Alamos National Laboratory Student Symposium, August 2025. Los Alamos, NM

Selected Honors and Awards

• Halloran Scholarship for the Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases at Emory. 2024

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. 2023

• UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellow. 2023

• Poster Winner at Los Alamos National Laboratory Student Symposium. 2022

• Recipient of Ann S. and Robert R. Morley Student Research Fund Grant. 2021