Dušan Petrić

Dr. Dušan Petrić is a professor at laboratory for Medical and veterinary Entomology at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He has done research on mosquitoes, black flies, sand flies and biting midges since 1981. Since 1987, He has been very active in European Chapter of SOVE and organized the 4th European SOVE Meeting in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1989. He was associate research fellow at the Institute of Zoology, University of Heidelberg, and KABS/GFS, Ludwigshafen on Rhine, Germany in 1990–2000. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, Department of Environmental Biology, U.K. in 1991–1992. Prof. Petric has published numerous high quality articles in peer reviewed journals. co-authored 2 books (Kluwer Academic, Springer), 1 book chapter (Nova Science Publishers). He has coordinated 2 national and 4 international projects and has presented 5 invited lectures worldwide, participating in VBORNET (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - ECDC), consortium member of VECTORNET (ECDC, European Food Safety Authority) project. He is the Associate Editor of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, has been reviewing articles for 7 SCI journals and organized 2 international conferences. Contribution to the know-how in vector research and control are the following: a) temperature regulated membrane feeding device (1994 – further developed by Hemotek); b) model on temperature impact on mosquito host seeking behaviour (1995); c) standardization of mosquito surveillance techniques in Europe (from 1999); d) the novel edge treatment approach to biological control of black fly larvae in large lowland river system (2009).