Vincent Robert

Dr Vincent Robert works as a researcher in the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), in Montpellier, France, where he is Director of Research of most senior grade. He has a PhD in Medical Biology, and a HDR (accreditation to lead scientific researches in French universities). His speciality is medical entomology and human diseases transmitted by mosquito vectors, with primary interest in malaria and arboviral diseases. He spent 25 years as a resident in various African countries such as Senegal, Burkina, Cameroon and Madagascar in sub-regional health organizations, Institut Pasteur and IRD centres. He belonged to the team that, for the first time, demonstrated the huge entomological impacts of pyrethroid impregnated bednets against anopheline mosquitoes and malaria transmission. He is Director of the Institut Pasteur course ‘Insect Vectors and transmission of pathogene agents’. He is involved in the international networks MediLabSecure and VectorNet, funded by European Union. He published more 200 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and book-chapters, plus two books. Altogether, Dr Robert has worked in more than 20 countries in three continents.