Mosaic team
MOSAIC has a resolutely interdisciplinary team with researchers from the environmental sciences, social sciences, health, public health, data science, computer sciences and modelling.
Project coordination
Emmanuel ROUX (IRD, France)
Project coordinator & WP3 co-leader
Emmanuel research area concerns data science and modelling for the understanding and control of eco-epidemiological systems and the design of cross-border One-Health observatories.
Lucile GUERIN (IRD, France)
Project Manager
Lucile has a master’s degree in development economics and has lived in several countries abroad, including 4 years in Brazil. She speaks French, English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Work Packages leaders
Paulo PEITER (Fiocruz/PICTIS, Brazil-Portugal)
WP1 co-leader and task co-leader
Paulo is an architect and economist, with a PhD in Human Geography. He is currently a researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC) where he works on health geography, health issues at international borders, health surveillance and « space, territory and health ». He is a professor in « Tropical Medicine » at the IOC and « Public Health and Environment » at the National School of Public Health (ENSP) of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ).
Martha Cecilia SUÁREZ-MUTIS (Fiocruz/PICTIS, Brazil-Portugal)
WP1 co-leader and task co-leader in WP1 and WP5
Martha studies malaria in the Amazon region. One of the objectives of her research is to understand the dynamic of malaria transmission and strategies for control until the elimination of this disease. She also studies the epidemiological surveillance of tropical diseases in the international borders of Brazil.
Victor N. MOSE (ACC, Kenya)
WP2 & WP5 co-leader and task co-leader in WP1, WP2, WP3 and WP5
Victor is the Co-Director and Head of Biostatistical Services at the Amboseli Conservation Program – African Conservation Centre (ACC). Victor has a PhD in Biomathematics and his research interests include: Population Dynamics, Large Mammal Migration Modelling and Dynamic Network Analysis. Victor has worked in the fields of ecological modelling, bioinformatics, advanced data visualization and GIS. He is currently working on the application of opensource Machine Learning and AI tools for biodiversity conservation in rural East Africa.
Alessandra FERREIRA DALES NAVA (Fiocruz/PICTIS, Brazil-Portugal)
WP2 co-leader
Alessandra Nava is a veterinarian based in brazilian Amazon. Landscape change and human development along with a sustainable relation with wildlife is her focus of study. Her career focuses on the interconnectivity of humans, wildlife and ecosystems. She works with active surveillance for emergent diseases in Brazilian Amazon forest wildlife, and measuring the types of contact that human populations have with wildlife in these different ecosystems.
Lucy Waruingi (ACC, Kenya)
WP1 & WP3 co-leader and task co-leader
Lucy Waruingi is the Executive Director of the African Conservation Centre (ACC). Under her leadership, ACC has established itself as a conservation and knowledge hub for coordinating collaborative research & biodiversity assessments, promoting tools and skills that support effective conservation actions, promote community led conservation initiatives that result in resilient and productive ecosystem. Her masters is in GIS & Remote sensing and has over 20 years experience in mainstreaming science and biodiversity data, information and knowledge to influence natural resource management planning, decision making and action at local, national and global levels.
Łukasz DUMISZEWSKI (University of Warsaw / ICM, Poland)
WP4 co-leader and task co-leader
Łukasz is head of the Software Development Team at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
(ICM), University of Warsaw. He specializes in web & big data application development, having over 20 years of professional experience in all phases of software development from analysis and planning to design and programming.
David “Jonah” WESTERN (ACC, Kenya)
Advisor to ACC and WP5 co-leader
Jonah long-term research and conservation work in Amboseli pioneered community-based conservation and ecosystem planning in Kenya. He is providing and guiding the applications of the research to the integration and modeling of environmental data and human health.