Biography

Dr. Kroon Campos earned his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2018. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he received the McLaughlin postdoctoral fellowship and a K99/R00 award from NIAID to study mosquito-borne viruses and transition to a tenure-track faculty position. He will start his lab at Cornell University in November 2024 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine. His research focuses on emerging and reemerging zoonotic mosquito-borne viruses, which pose an increasing global health threat. He studies virus-host interactions at the molecular level using transdisciplinary approaches, including in vivo infection models, RNA biology, and cell biology, aiming to develop epidemic and pandemic preparedness strategies.