Silvie Huijben, PhD

Silvie Huijben serves as Associate Professor at Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences and Center for Evolution and Medicine, where she investigates strategies to combat antimalarial and insecticide resistance. Her academic credentials include a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and infectious diseases from the University of Edinburgh (2010), followed by postdoctoral work at Pennsylvania State University's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. Her research combines fieldwork, laboratory experiments, and mathematical modeling to understand the evolutionary ecology of resistant organisms, particularly malaria parasites and disease-transmitting mosquitoes. She has received prestigious awards including the Science in Society – Branco Weiss Fellowship and a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship. Her lab's work focuses on optimizing disease control strategies while managing resistance evolution, using innovative approaches that combine field-derived samples with evolutionary experiments and mathematical modeling to better understand and combat drug and insecticide resistance in disease vectors.