Dr Marianne Sinka

Marianne Sinka is a medical entomologist with a specific interest in mosquito vectors of human malaria, in particular she examines the environmental drivers that limit different species’ distributions, their behaviour relevant to disease transmission and how species’ relative abundance is affected by common control measures.

She is currently the Senior Postdoctoral researcher and Co-I of HumBug, a cross disciplinary project developing an acoustic mosquito sensor that can passively detect and identify host-seeking mosquitoes attracted to people sleeping in their homes. She advises on the CEASE (Controlling emergent Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Sudan) project, is part of the GBIF task group on mobilsation and use of biodiversity data for research and policy on human diseases and provides data and expertise for the WHO Malaria Threat Map and the vector alert for the invasion and spread of An. stephensi in Africa