Independent researcher and consultant
BioSys - Biology and systematics of biting insect, Alsace, France
Francis Schaffner, French, PhD, independent researcher and consultant in France. He is a medical and veterinary entomologist, focusing first on mosquitoes, but also on biting midges, Phlebotomine sand flies, and Culicoides biting flies. He devoted the first part of his career to sustainable mosquito control and to mosquito taxonomy in France, first in Alsace, later on the Mediterranean coast. From 2007 to 2013, he was working at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Parasitology, developing research on insect vectors. He remained associate researcher at that institute until 2024 and is now associated to the University of the Balearic Islands (INAGEA). He also worked from 2009 to 2016 for Avia-GIS, a Belgian company that is developing tools for surveying vectors and assessing the related risk. Since 2016, Francis is working as freelance consultant, mainly supporting international bodies (ECDC, EFSA, WHO) and national authorities by developing networking and capacity building (e.g. VectorNet), performing needs assessments, and designing risk management plans for vector-borne diseases. Francis has now 40 years of experience in surveillance, control, taxonomy, ecology of insect vectors and transmission of human and animal vector-borne disease pathogens, all over Europe but also in EU Overseas Countries and Territories, in Middle East and in North Africa. He is a leader in mosquito taxonomy and in management of invasive mosquitoes. He’s the current past-president of the European Mosquito Control Association.
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217 - Eighteen years of pan-European vector mapping
Thursday, March 6, 2025
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM AST