Marius Gilbert

Background

About Marius Gilbert

I graduated in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1995. I was a visiting researcher for two years at the department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and finished my PhD on an insect pest ecology at the ULB in 2001. I was then a post-doctoral fellow at the “Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique” (FNRS, Brussels, Belgium) for three years, followed by three years or research at the ULB on contract research. In 2006, I was awarded a “Research Associate” permanent academic position with the Belgian FNRS, hosted at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. My research deals with the spatial epidemiology of harmful organisms, insects and animal diseases, using a range of spatial modelling and spatial statistic tools. Although I work on several disease and insect system, much of my research over the last few years has focussed on the spatial epidemiology of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Asia. I am particularly interested in trying to better understand how changes in agricultural production influence the emergence and spread of animal diseases.