Position
Research Director in Ecology and Control of Vectors, UMR ASTRE, Department BIOS
Research interests
Ecology of vectors
- Mapping of vector distribution
- Relationship with vegetation
- Feeding behaviour
- Mating behaviour
- Dispersal (Mark-Release-Recapture)
- Population structure and landscape friction
Genetic control of vectors
- Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) and boosted SIT
- Incompatible Insect Technique (Wolbachia)
- Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management
Environmental monitoring
- Development of ecological inicators of ecosystem health in Africa
- Monitoring of the impact of vector control on non target organisms
Research experience
Tsetse flies, vectors of African Trypanosomoses
- 18 years in Africa at CIRDES, Burkina Faso (7 y), ISRA, Senegal (7y) and NICETT, Ethiopia (2y)
- Technical support to the tsetse elimination projects in Senegal and Ethiopia
Mosquitoes, vectors of malaria and arboviruses
- Leader of the Human Disease Vectors group of the FAO-IAEA Insect Pest Control Laboratory between 2017-2023
- Support and management of several field suppression trials of Aedes mosquitoes
- Development of a plan to delimitate and contain the invasion of Aedes aegypti in Cyprus
Projects
Ongoing
- Scientific Coordinator of OPTIS (Opérationnalisation de la Technique de l'Insecte Stérile contre les Aedes vecteurs de dengue à La Réunion), funded by Réunion Union & UE Feder, to implement a phase III trial of boosted SIT in St Joseph, Réunion island
- Task leader "Improved Sterile Insect Technique" in the EU project INOVEC project
- Projet Interreg VI PRERISK-OI within the One Health Indian Ocean Research Network
Completed
- Coordinator of the ERC Proof of Concept Grant Mosquarel (Aerial Release of Mosquitoes), aiming at the development and validation of a drone release system for sterile male mosquitoes (2021-2022)
- Coordinator of the ERC Consolidator Grant Revolinc (Revolutionizing Insect Control), with the goal of developing the boosted Sterile Insect Technique against three insect groups including Aedes mosquitoes (2016-2021)
- Coordinator of IVEMA (Integrated vector Management: innovating to improve
control and reduce environmental impacts), Agence nationale de la recherche (2014-2016)
Teaching
- Participation to the module "Vector Ecology and Control" of Master GIZMAT