Thierry de Meeûs received a PhD in population biology from the University of Montpellier (1991). He has been a researcher at CNRS in Montpellier, France, from 1993 to 2012 when he joined IRD as a director of research. He has been posted in Burkina Faso from 2009 to 2015. His research has focused on adaptive polymorphism and habitat preference evolution, as well as the use of population genetics tools for population biology inferences in host parasite systems. His current research is on hosts and parasites co-structure and the use of molecular markers in ecological inference, in particular in epidemiological systems. He’s also working on the theoretical and applied population genetics of clonal organisms. He current research is mostly on trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis. He is the author of more than 150 scientific articles and of one text book on the population genetics of parasites and their vectors.