Victoria Romeo Aznar is from Argentina and joined the University of Chicago Modeling and Theory in Ecology and Epidemiology Lab as a postdoctoral scholar in 2016. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, where she developed a non-linear stochastic model for the population dynamics of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, one of the main vectors of Dengue. She also conducted research in the Biology of Integrative Systems Lab at Leloir Institute Foundation, where she developed and analyzed prioritization methods for complex networks of biological origin. She is currently seeking to understand how spatial heterogeneity, population density, and socioeconomic disparity affect the transmission of vector-borne diseases in cities. She is developing stochastic transmission models that incorporate different assumptions on the effects of human and vector distributions and mobility. She is a physicist who is curious about complex systems, and the application of mathematical models to biology and social sciences. She enjoys exploring the outdoors and traveling.