María Cristina Carrasquilla Ferro

E-mail: mccarrasquilla@uniandes.edu.co

My field of research is medical entomology. I studied biology at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (2002), and then I worked as a young researcher at the Entomology Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Colombia, on a project focused on evaluating impregnated bed nets as a control measure for leishmaniasis. I pursued master studies in biological sciences at Universidad de los Andes (2008), and I was involved in a project about ecology and control of biting midges. After finishing my master studies, I joined the National Vector-Borne Diseases Program at the Ministry of Health in Colombia. Then, I pursued doctoral studies in entomology, under the supervision of Professor Philip Lounibos at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida (2017). In my PhD, I studied reproductive interference between invasive mosquito vectors. From Florida, I moved back to Colombia and joined the CIMPAT, as a postdoctoral researcher. I´m working on vector-borne diseases in the context of climate change, and on dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus ecology and disease risk management.