Biography
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.
Research interests
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).
Teaching
Chris leads a module on Vector Biology as part of Masters degree teaching at LSTM. He also supervises PhD students in the area of vector ecology.
Selected research publications
Repeated biannual cross-sectional surveys in primary schools set baseline seasonal and spatial surveillance for malaria and schistosomiasis in the Shire Valley Transformation Programme (SVTP), Malawi – Journal: Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases – Published: 9th January 2026
Predicting current habitat suitability for intermediate snail hosts of urogenital and intestinal schistosomiasis in the Lower Shire Valley floodplain of southern Malawi – Journal: Parasites & Vectors – Published: 29th August 2025
Mapping waste piles in an urban environment using ground surveys, manual digitization of drone imagery, and object based image classification approach. – Journal: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment – Published: 11th March 2025
A first report of Biomphalaria pfeifferi in the Lower Shire Valley, Southern Malawi, a major intermediate snail host species for intestinal schistosomiasis – Journal: Scientific Reports – Published: 15th February 2025
Small dams drive Anopheles abundance during the dry season in a high malaria burden area of Malawi – Journal: Medical and Veterinary Entomology – Published: 21st June 2024
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