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Personal profile
Research expertise
Wim Van Bortel is a medical entomologist, PhD, with more than 25 years of experience in research on vectors and vector-borne diseases in Europe, Africa and Asia. He obtained his Master degree in Biology at the University of Antwerp Belgium in 1990 after which he specialised in Medical Entomology at the Institut Pasteur Paris. In 2002, he obtained his PhD at the University of Antwerp Belgium. From 2010 till 2016 he was Senior Expert vector-borne diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control where he was Deputy Head of ECDC’s Emerging and Vector-borne Diseases Programme. Since 2017 he works at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM) as senior Researcher in the Unit of Entomology and in the Outbreak Research Team.
His research focuses on disentangling the role of arthropod vectors in transmission systems in order to improve vector-borne diseases prevention and control in a public health context. As member of the ITM outbreak Research team he aims to enhance the understanding of what drives the transmission and spread of outbreak-prone diseases, as well as to assess different outbreak prevention and control strategies.
Currently Wim Van Bortel is involved in following projects and activities:
- Research collaboration on malaria outbreaks in Burundian Highlands. Collaboration with MSF in the context of the Outbreak Research Team;
- ZCL Morocco: A systemic insecticide to control zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Errachidia province - Southeastern Morocco: an intervention trial for an innovative vector control tool where he leads the entomology work package;
- MOnitoring Outbreaks for Disease surveillance in a data science context (MOOD) where he leads WP1 and is member of the executive board;
- Monitoring of exotic Aedes mosquitoes in Belgium (MEMO+) and the mosquito surveillance platform;
- Bio-ecological studies on Aedes mosquitoes in DRC in the context of ITM’s capacity building with partners;
- European network for medical and veterinary entomology (VectorNet) where he leads the work package “Scientific advice”.
Teaching expertise
Wim Van Bortel is lecturer in the courses Tropical Medicine and International Health, Tropical Medicine for bachelors in nursing and midwifery, and Médecine Tropicale pour bachelors en soins infirmiers et sages-femmes at the Institute of Tropical Medicine. He is also lecturer of the course Ecology, Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases at the department of Biomedical Sciences of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Antwerp.
Education/Academic qualification
Biology, PhD, University of Antwerp
Award Date: 6-Sep-2002
Master
External positions
Lecturer, University of Antwerp
2019 → …Senior Expert Vector-borne Diseases, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
1-Apr-2010 → 31-Dec-2016Keywords
- B780-tropical-medicine
- vector-borne diseases
- malaria
- arboviroses
- Culicidae
- Phlebotomus
- exotic mosquitoes
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Network
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VectorNext: European Network for Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Müller, R., Van Bortel, W. & Borremans, G.
22/06/22 → 21/06/23
Project: Service
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FA5 RDC_OC1: Strengthen research and education capacities in the partner institutes (INRB, CRSK, ESP) in DRC (Outcome 1) - Support to interruption of transmission of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) by 2030 (Outcome 2)
Vanlerberghe, V., Verlé, P., Nicco, E., Van Cauwenberg, I., Everaert, R., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Mutsaers, M., de Jong, B., Van Den Abbeele, J., Dermauw, V., Ariën, K., Hauner, A., Monsieurs, P. & Van Bortel, W.
1/01/22 → 31/12/26
Project: Development project
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MEMO+: Monitoring of exotic mosquitoes in Belgium
Müller, R., Van Bortel, W., Deblauwe, I. & Borremans, G.
14/09/21 → 13/09/24
Project: Research Project
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Entomological evidence to support Visceral Leishmaniasis elimination in Nepal
Roy, L., Hasker, E., Van Bortel, W., Van Bortel, W. & Caljon, G.
1/07/20 → …
Project: PhD-project
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MOOD: MOnitoring Outbreak events for Disease surveillance in a data science context
Müller, R., Van Bortel, W. & Borremans, G.
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Research Project
Research output
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Aedes koreicus, a vector on the rise: Pan-European genetic patterns, mitochondrial and draft genome sequencing
Kurucz, K., Zeghbib, S., Arnoldi, D., Marini, G., Manica, M., Michelutti, A., Montarsi, F., Deblauwe, I., Van Bortel, W., Smitz, N., Pfitzner, W. P., Czajka, C., Jöst, A., Kalan, K., Šušnjar, J., Ivović, V., Kuczmog, A., Lanszki, Z., Tóth, G. E., Somogyi, B. A. & 5 others, , 2022, In: PLoS ONE. 17, 8, 14 p., e0269880.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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DNA identification and diversity of the vector mosquitoes Culex pipiens s.s. and Culex torrentium in Belgium (Diptera: Culicidae)
Vanderheyden, A., Smitz, N., De Wolf, K., Deblauwe, I., Dekoninck, W., Meganck, K., Gombeer, S., Vanslembrouck, A., De Witte, J., Schneider, A., Verle, I., De Meyer, M., Backeljau, T., Mueller, R. & Van Bortel, W., 2022, In: Diversity-Basel. 14, 6, 12 p., 486.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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dynamAedes: a unified modelling framework for invasive Aedes mosquitoes
Da Re, D., Van Bortel, W., Reuss, F., Müller, R., Boyer, S., Montarsi, F., Ciocchetta, S., Arnoldi, D., Marini, G., Rizzoli, A., L'Ambert, G., Lacour, G., Koenraadt, C. J. M., Vanwambeke, S. O. & Marcantonio, M., 2022, In: Parasites and Vectors. 15, 1, p. 414Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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From a long-distance threat to the invasion front: a review of the invasive Aedes mosquito species in Belgium between 2007 and 2020
Deblauwe, I., De Wolf, K., De Witte, J., Schneider, A., Verlé, I., Vanslembrouck, A., Smitz, N., Demeulemeester, J., Van Loo, T., Dekoninck, W., Krit, M., Madder, M., Müller, R. & Van Bortel, W., 2022, In: Parasites and Vectors. 15, 1, p. 206 17 p., 206.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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Long-lasting insecticidal nets provide protection against malaria for only a single year in Burundi, an African highland setting with marked malaria seasonality
Van Bortel, W., Mariën, J., Jacobs, B. K. M., Sinzinkayo, D., Sinarinzi, P., Lampaert, E., D'hondt, R., Mafuko, J-M., De Weggheleire, A., Vogt, F., Alexander, N., Wint, W., Maes, P., Vanlerberghe, V. & Leclair, C., 2022, In: BMJ Global Health . 7, 12, 9 p., e009674.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review