Professor Alan Cork

Email: A.Cork@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Bio-Rational Pest Management, and Head of Agriculture, Health and Environment Group. Has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers resulting from 30 years’ experience of research to develop and implement IPM-compatible solutions to crop-pest and disease-vector problems that affect the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers in South Asia, South America and Africa. Recent work on the development of innovation platforms with SMEs, NGOs and Government researchers to commercialize research outputs for the benefit of rice and vegetable farmers in South Asia.

Dudley Farman

Email: D.I.Farman@gre.ac.uk
Analytical chemist with over 18 years experience in analysis and formulation of insect pheromones and related natural products, and also in chemical quality assessment of horticultural produce. Wide experience of installation and maintenance of computer hardware and software, and of analytical equipment. Short-term overseas experience in Africa.

Professor David Hall

Email: D.R.Hall@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Chemical Ecology. Natural products chemist with over 25 years experience in isolation, identification, synthesis, formulation and field application of insect semiochemicals and other natural products for monitoring and control of insect pests. Extensive short-term overseas experience in Asia, Africa and South America. Currently working on pests of coffee, cocoa, potatoes and wheat in developing countries, and horticultural pests in UK and the rest of Europe. Author of over 125 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr Rick Hodges

Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Postharvest Entomology. Specialist in the reduction of grain postharvest losses, pest and commodity management of durable commodities in warehouses and shipping. Thirty years research, teaching and consultancy on pest and quality control on-farm, in warehouses and during transport, including: rational use of insecticides and fumigants; storage pest behaviour and ecology, especially of larger grain borer. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.

Dr Philip Stevenson

Email: P.C.Stevenson@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Plant Chemistry. Twenty years’ experience in isolation, identification and structural determination of plant chemicals. Particular interest in: botanical pesticides for pest control by resource-poor farmers in Africa; chemicals in crop species (sweet potato, groundnuts, chickpea, rice, tropical trees) that confer resistance to pests and diseases. Leader of two EDF projects on pesticidal plants in southern Africa. Holds parallel post at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. PhD supervision (8 completed, 4 current). Extensive field experience in South Asia and Africa.

Dr Steve Torr

Email: S.Torr@gre.ac.uk
Control of veterinary and medical insect pests. Over 25 years experience in research, development and field application of technologies for controlling insect pests of veterinary and medical importance. Current interests include: use of insecticide-treated cattle to control tsetse, ticks and mosquitoes; improved methods for controlling and monitoring midges and the development of artificial baits to control tsetse-transmitted sleeping sickness. Extensive overseas experience in Africa, including eight years on attachment to the Zimbabwe Department of Veterinary Services as a tsetse ecologist.