Marta Shocket

Marta Shocket serves as a Lecturer in Ecology within the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, with additional affiliations at the Data Science Institute and Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science. Her research program investigates environmental drivers of infectious disease transmission, specializing in temperature effects on pathogen dynamics in invertebrate host systems through integrated field, laboratory, and mathematical approaches.

Dr. Shocket's work centers on ecological epidemiology with emphasis on vector-borne diseases including malaria, dengue, and West Nile virus. She examines thermal constraints on transmission, host-pathogen coevolution under climate change, and cross-scale mechanisms linking organism physiology to epidemic patterns. Current projects include fungal pathogen research in insect hosts, for which she is recruiting a PhD student starting autumn 2024.

Analysis of her publication record (2015-2025) reveals consistent contributions to climate-disease modeling, particularly demonstrating how mean daily temperatures better predict malaria transmission limits than hourly summation, and how thermal acclimation influences host-pathogen interactions. Her research increasingly incorporates fluctuating temperature regimes and ecological complexity to refine transmission forecasts.

Dr. Shocket actively seeks PhD candidates for fungal pathogen research while contributing to the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science's Ecology and Conservation group. Her work bridges ecological theory, data science, and public health applications through interdisciplinary collaboration at Lancaster University.