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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.

近期论文

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.