Profile

My research mainly focuses on two aspects: (1) the impact of environmental variables on insects’ behaviour, and (2) the development of integrated and sustainable solutions against organisms that negatively affect humans. I am especially interested in increasing our knowledge about organisms’ ecology in order to implement efficient control, mitigation, or conservation strategies.

My current project aims to better understand the bioacoustics of invasive mosquitoes. Mosquito bioacoustics can be used to identify the species, and we are currently working on an identification algorithm based on mosquito sound, in collaboration with a research team specialized in artificial intelligence. We are also studying which ecological parameters affect the mosquito sound, and how. Finally, we are investigating the acoustic communication during the mating behaviour of the tiger mosquito.