Jillian Silbert Paull is a PhD candidate in the Systems Synthetic and Quantitative Biology program at Harvard. In the Sabeti Lab, her research is focused on detection and sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 and other viral pathogens in wastewater and clinical samples, via computational and experimental approaches.

Jillian studied Molecular Biology and Quantitative Biology at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude in 2018. After graduating, she pursued a Fulbright scholarship in Madrid, where she worked at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología. She is a Hertz Fellow and NSF GRFP Recipient.

Outside of the lab, Jillian spends her time visiting family, traveling, or often doing both simultaneously.