Norbert Becker (biologist)

Norbert Becker (* 1949 in Hüffelsheim, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach) is a biologist, university lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, scientific-technical director of KABS, and managing director and vice-president of the European Mosquito Control Association (EMCA). He is also president of the World Mosquito Control Association (WMCA).
Life and Works.
After finishing school Becker studied at Heidelberg University and obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in biology, physics and chemistry in 1974. He obtained a Master of Science degree in biology in 1976 at the Zoological Institute of the same university in 1976. He then obtained a doctorate in Natural Science there, followed by professorship in biology with Venia Legendi in Zoologie at the Faculty of Bioscience in 1993.
He has been a lecturer at Heidelberg University since 1977, where he became a professor in 2008, and gives tutorials in medical entomology und oncology at its Zoological Institute. As a professor, Beccker supervises doctoral students in entomology (e.g. medical entomology) and applied field research in Heidelberg.
Becker has been active in mosquito control in the upper Rhine (Schnakenbekämpfung am Oberrhein) since 1976, and since 1981 is the Scientific Director of the German Mosquito Control Organisation and Technical Director of the Community Action Committee for the Fight Against Mosquito Infestation (Kommunalen Aktionsgemeinschaft zur Bekämpfung der Schnakenplage) in Speyer.
In addition Becker is involved in numerous international organisations and is founding president of the World Mosquito Control Association.
Norbert Becker is married with four grown-up children.
Activities (selection).
Becker‘s goal is to establish a globally active organisation for the control of mosquitos as carriers of disease (Mosquito Control Associations) within the world-wide organisation WMCA in order to limit disease spread by mosquitos in a coordinated manner.
By 2018 Becker had published more than two hundred articles