Prof. Lizette Koekemoer

Prof Lizette Koekemoer is a research professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has a research interest in molecular systematics, insecticide resistance, vector biology, development of novel vector control tools or interventions and studies on mosquito-parasite transmission blocking. Currently, she is the co-director of the Wits Research Institute for Malaria (WRIM) and head of the Medical Entomology Research Group within WRIM. Lizette has been involved in several projects to build entomology capacity in various control programs in southern Africa. Prof Koekemoer has a Google Scholar citation h-index of 43 with over 6,200 citations. She has supervised and co-supervised over 63 post-graduate students.