Chris Jones is a Senior Lecturer and Entomologist at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) with experience of working with several insect pests of agriculture and human disease.

His research experience includes projects investigating insecticide resistance, transcriptomics and migration biology. Chris held a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Future Leader Fellowship and previously led the Vector Biology group at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme in Malawi. He is co-lead of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Global Health Research Group project, Shire-Vec, that seeks to understand the interaction between irrigation and vector-borne disease in an area subject to significant change.

Chris is a supervisor of PhD students, active mentor of early career researchers, Associate Editor of Medical & Veterinary Entomology and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

Currently, Chris’s primary research interests are in the field ecology of mosquitoes. In particular, he is interested in mosquito migration and dispersal – applying different methods to understand this fascinating behaviour. To do this, he is investigating the ecology salt marsh mosquitoes in the UK as a case study as part of a UK Research and Innovation/Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs project.

Chris is also interested in the population ecology of disease vectors and how this relates to land use. This is the subject of his most recent projects based in Malawi. Strengthening the resilience against sleeping sickness (funded by the Medical Research Council), and Controlling Vector Borne Diseases in Emerging Agricultural Systems in Malawi, Shire-Vec (funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research).