Thomas, Chris - Aberystwyth University - Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences

个人简介

Chris was born in Manchester, England but raised in Vancouver, Canada. He was awarded his PhD in Zoology at Glasgow University in 1994 studying ravens and habitat in the west highlands of Scotland. In 1994 he also joined the faculty at Durham University as lecturer, then senior lecturer, where his research focused on ecological applications of geographic information and spatial population dynamics, particularly in disease vectors. He moved to Aberystwyth University in 2007 to take up the CIRRE Chair in Ecological Modeling and in 2013 was also appointed Chair in Zoology. Chris is an active researcher, leading a team in vector-borne disease hazard mapping and spatial epidemiology using mathematical models, remote sensing & GIS, including in relation to climate change. Much of his group's work in recent years has focused on human malaria in Africa. This research is highly interdisciplinary and Chris collaborates with medics, public health, social scientists, physical geographers, mathematicians and computer scientists. He has published over 60 papers and won research awards totaling over £12m.

研究领域

Spatial Ecology disease transmission in relation to vector ecology, landscape composition, structure and dynamics; effect of climate and environmental change on these processes; spatial scaling of these processes. We employ a broad range of analytical and geographic techniques (e.g. spatial statistical and simulation modelling, Geographic Information Systems, remote sensing and image processing) in addition to traditional field ecological methods. Coupling ecology with geography provides exciting opportunities to link theory to the real world. However, it is clear that the research agenda for many complex ecological systems spans a number of disciplinary boundaries and I often collaborate with scientists from other areas. Current work includes: developing ecological field and modelling approaches to understand spatial patterns of vector population dynamics and vector-borne disease transmission at local to landscape scales; field, remote sensing and modelling projects for local scale prediction of malaria vector hotspots to plan interventions in Gambia, Tanzania and Zambia; modeling malaria and projected climate in Africa; statistical modelling of climate change impact on vector-borne/intermediate host disease distributions.

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Allen-Scott, L.K., Buntain, B., Hatfield, J.M., Meisser, A., Thomas, C. 2015. Academic Institutions and One Health: Building Capacity for Transdisciplinary Research Approaches to Address Complex Health Issues at the Animal–Human–Ecosystem Interface. Academic Medicine 90 (7) pp. 866-871. Cadair Williams, H., Cross, D., Crump, H.L., Drost, C., Thomas, C. 2015. Climate suitability for European ticks: assessing species distribution models against null models and projection under AR5 climate. Parasites & Vectors 8 (440) Cadair Hardy, A., Mageni, Z., Dongus, S., Killeen, G., Macklin, M.G., Majambare, S., Ali, A., Msellem, M., Al-mafazy, A., Smith, M., Thomas, C. 2015. Mapping hotspots of malaria transmission from pre-existing hydrology, geology and geomorphology data in the pre-elimination context of Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania. Parasites & Vectors 8 (1) 41 Cadair Hardy, A.J., Gamarra, J.G.P., Cross, D.E., Macklin, M.G., Smith, M.W., Kihonda, J., Killeen, G.F., Ling'ala, G.N., Thomas, C.J. 2013. Habitat hydrology and geomorphology control the distribution of malaria vector larvae in rural Africa. PLoS One 8 (12) e81931 Cadair Smith, M., Macklin, M.G., Thomas, C.J. 2013. Hydrological and geomorphological controls of malaria transmission. Earth-Science Reviews 116 pp. 109-127. Thomas, C., Cross, D.E., Bogh, C. 2013. Landscape movements of Anopheles gambiae malaria vector mosquitoes in rural Gambia. PLoS One 8 (7) e68679 Cadair de la Fuente, G., Thomas, C.J., Newbold, C.J. 2012. A predador-prey system for microbial metapopulation studies. INRA-Rowett Symposium on Gut Microbiology, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 17/06/2012 - 20/06/2012. Vanhaecke, D., Garcia de Leaniz, C., Gajardo, G., Thomas, C.J., Consuegra Del Olmo, S. 2012. Metapopulation dynamics of a diadromous galaxiid fish and potential effects of salmonid aquaculture. Freshwater Biology 57 (6) pp. 1241-1252. Lang, D.J., Wiek, A., Bergmann, M., Stauffacher, M., Martens, P., Moll, P., Swilling, M., Thomas, C.J. 2012. Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges. Sustainability Science 7 (1 Supplement) pp. 25-43.