I am a tenured professor in the Department of Entomology at Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and a member of the graduate programs in Entomology, Ecology and Evolution, Microbiology, and the School of Public Health – https://fonseca-lab.com/. I am also a member of the Rutgers Global Health Institute – https://globalhealth.rutgers.edu/, the Rutgers Climate Institute- https://climatechange.rutgers.edu/ and the Rutgers One Health Steering Committee. I have extensive experience working on the ecological and evolutionary genetics of invasive mosquitoes and ticks and the parasite/pathogens they transmit. In addition to my basic research, I am the Director of the Rutgers Center for Vector Biology – https://vectorbio.rutgers.edu/, a program that provides accreditation, continuing education and broadly supports the extended NJ Mosquito Control community. I also work with residential communities to develop proactive strategies for urban vector (mosquitoes and now also tick) control. I am committed to training better medical entomologists as well as to developing and field-testing enhanced approaches including strategies to prevent and manage the spread of insecticide resistance. I am a founding member of the Worldwide Insecticide resistance Network – https://win-network.ird.fr/, currently represented in 19 institutions worldwide developing vector research. The WIN creates a unique framework for the exchange of new methodologies and samples for tracking insecticide resistance in vectors of arboviruses and other public health pathogens.