Frederic Simard

Frederic Simard is an expert in vector biology and control working at the French “Institut de Recherche pour le Développement” (IRD) in Montpellier, France. He has spent 15 years in tropical Africa exploring the population biology, ecology and genetics of major mosquito disease vectors including Anopheles and Aedes mosquitoes. Bridging field and lab studies, medical entomology and evolution, he has been interested in exploring issues related to local adaptation, speciation and pathogen transmission. He has published over 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals in diverse areas of molecular biology and evolution, genetics and genomics, vector control and tropical medicine. Back in Montpellier in 2011, he was appointed Director of the MIVEGEC research unit (Infectious Diseases and Vectors: Ecology, Genetics, Evolution and Control) by IRD, CNRS and Montpellier University in 2015, for 6 years. He is co-PI and WP Leader in the EU/H2020 INFRAVEC-2 project.