Julien Pompon is the leader of the inter-Host Arbovirus Transmission (iHAT) group at MIVEGEC, Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France. He has a Ph.D. in insect physiology from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, obtained in 2010. From 2010-2014, he completed a FRM post doctoral fellowship in the INSERM-CNRS unit "Innate Immunity of insects" on mosquito immunity. He was then Co-Prinicipal Investigator at Duke-NUS, Singapore, where he studied arbovirus transmission from 2014-2019. In 2019, he started his current group at MIVEGEC to apply cutting-edge cell and molecular biology technologies to decipher the mechanisms of arbovirus transmission. He has published more than 55 papers, including as senior author in PNAS, Nature Communications, PLoS Pathogens, and PLoS Biology.