Dr Mauro Pazmino Betancourth

  • Research Associate (Host-Parasite Interactions & Pathogenesis)

Biography

I started my research career when I obtained my degree in Biotechnology Engineering at the Armed Forces University in Ecuador. I worked at the medical entomology department at the Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI) doing vector surveillance along the Ecuadorian coast. Furthermore, I got my master degree in parasitology and vector biology, where I worked on speciation of Anopheles gambiae at Keele University. 

After working as a lecturer in various universities in Ecuador, I won the prestigious Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Scholarship to pursue a multidisciplinary PhD project using quantum cascade lasers in spectroscopy for mosquito surveillance. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the vector biology group. My work focuses on improving our understanding on how mid-infrared spectroscopy data relates with mosquito ageing. 

Research interests

I am a vector biologist who specialises in mid-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning analysis in the context of vector surveillance.

My research interests are:

  • Vector surveillance
  • Mosquito ageing 
  • Ecology of vector diseases
  • Spectroscopy as a tool for vector surveillance
  • Machine learning

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mauro-Pazmino-Betancourth

GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=m4iwAloAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 9.

2025

Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Boldin, Aleksandr, Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor, Hogg, Richard A., Baldini, Francesc ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070, González-Jiménez, Mario ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8853-0588, Wynne, Klaas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5305-5940 and Childs, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8131 (2025) Towards fast quantum cascade laser spectrometers for high-throughput and cost-effective disease surveillance. Spectroscopy Journal, 3(1), 8. (doi: 10.3390/spectroscj3010008)

2024

Pazmiño-Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Casas Gómez-Uribarri, Ivan, Mondragon-Shem, Karina, Babayan, Simon A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4949-1117, Baldini, Francesco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070 and Haines, Lee Rafuse (2024) Advancing age grading techniques for Glossina morsitans morsitans, vectors of african trypanosomiasis, through mid-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning. Biology Methods and Protocols, 9(1), bpae058. (doi: 10.1093/biomethods/bpae058) (PMID:39290986) (PMCID:PMC11407438)

2023

Pazmiño Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Ochoa-Gutiérrez, Victor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X, Ferguson, Heather M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-5176, González-Jiménez, Mario ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8853-0588, Wynne, Klaas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5305-5940, Baldini, Francesco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070 and Childs, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8131 (2023) Evaluation of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for predicting age, species, and cuticular resistance of Anopheles gambiae s.l under laboratory conditions. Scientific Reports, 13, 18499. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-45696-x) (PMID:37898634) (PMCID:PMC10613238)

Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X, Guerrero-Zuñiga, Selene, Reboud, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6879-8405, Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Harvey, Andrew, Cooper, Jonathan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-1050, Pfefer, T. Joshua, Hwang, Jeeseong and Vargas, Gracie (2023) Comparison of Pulse Oximetry Measurements Between High and Low Skin Pigmentation. In: SPIE BiOS, 2023, San Francisco, Ca., US, 28 Jan-2 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2651059)

2022

Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X, Guerrero-Zuñiga, Selene, Reboud, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6879-8405, Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Harvey, Andrew R. and Cooper, Jonathan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-1050 (2022) Changes in oxygenation levels during moderate altitude simulation (hypoxia-induced): a pilot study investigating the impact of skin pigmentation in pulse oximetry. In: Scholkmann, Felix, LaManna, Joseph and Wolf, Ursula (eds.) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XLIII. Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB), 1395. Springer: Cham, Switzerland, pp. 391-396. ISBN 9783031141898 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-14190-4_64)

2021

Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X, Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Reboud, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6879-8405, Harvey, Andrew R., Cooper, Jonathan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-1050, Mahajan, Sumeet and Reichelt, Stefanie (2021) Analysis and Exploration of Heme Groups Using ATR-FTIR for Future Health Monitoring. In: SPIE PHOTONEX, Glasgow, UK, 28 Sep - 01 Oct 2021, (doi: 10.1117/12.2598646)

2020

Soria, Rosa I., Rolfe, Stephen A., Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611 and Thornton, Steven F. (2020) The relationship between properties of plant-based biochars and sorption of Cd(II), Pb(II) and Zn(II) in soil model systems. Heliyon, 6(11), e05388. (doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05388) (PMID:33241138) (PMCID:PMC7672296)

Ortega-López, Leonardo D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0819-0721, Pondeville, Emilie, Kohl, Alain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1523-9458, León, Renato, Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Almire, Floriane, Torres-Valencia, Sergio, Saldarriaga, Segundo, Mirzai, Nosrat and Ferguson, Heather M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-5176 (2020) The mosquito electrocuting trap as an exposure-free method for measuring human-biting rates by Aedes mosquito vectors. Parasites and Vectors, 13, 31. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-3887-8) (PMID:31941536) (PMCID:PMC6961254)

Pazmino-Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X and Childs, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8131 (2020) Organic Polymers Classification using QCL Spectroscopy. In: Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources 2020, Washington DC, USA, 16–20 November 2020, ISBN 9781943580736

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 17:41:18 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 9.

Articles

Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Boldin, Aleksandr, Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor, Hogg, Richard A., Baldini, Francesc ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070, González-Jiménez, Mario ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8853-0588, Wynne, Klaas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5305-5940 and Childs, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8131 (2025) Towards fast quantum cascade laser spectrometers for high-throughput and cost-effective disease surveillance. Spectroscopy Journal, 3(1), 8. (doi: 10.3390/spectroscj3010008)

Pazmiño-Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Casas Gómez-Uribarri, Ivan, Mondragon-Shem, Karina, Babayan, Simon A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4949-1117, Baldini, Francesco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070 and Haines, Lee Rafuse (2024) Advancing age grading techniques for Glossina morsitans morsitans, vectors of african trypanosomiasis, through mid-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning. Biology Methods and Protocols, 9(1), bpae058. (doi: 10.1093/biomethods/bpae058) (PMID:39290986) (PMCID:PMC11407438)

Pazmiño Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Ochoa-Gutiérrez, Victor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X, Ferguson, Heather M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-5176, González-Jiménez, Mario ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8853-0588, Wynne, Klaas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5305-5940, Baldini, Francesco ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5904-4070 and Childs, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8131 (2023) Evaluation of diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for predicting age, species, and cuticular resistance of Anopheles gambiae s.l under laboratory conditions. Scientific Reports, 13, 18499. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-45696-x) (PMID:37898634) (PMCID:PMC10613238)

Soria, Rosa I., Rolfe, Stephen A., Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611 and Thornton, Steven F. (2020) The relationship between properties of plant-based biochars and sorption of Cd(II), Pb(II) and Zn(II) in soil model systems. Heliyon, 6(11), e05388. (doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05388) (PMID:33241138) (PMCID:PMC7672296)

Ortega-López, Leonardo D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0819-0721, Pondeville, Emilie, Kohl, Alain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1523-9458, León, Renato, Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Almire, Floriane, Torres-Valencia, Sergio, Saldarriaga, Segundo, Mirzai, Nosrat and Ferguson, Heather M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9625-5176 (2020) The mosquito electrocuting trap as an exposure-free method for measuring human-biting rates by Aedes mosquito vectors. Parasites and Vectors, 13, 31. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-3887-8) (PMID:31941536) (PMCID:PMC6961254)

Book Sections

Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X, Guerrero-Zuñiga, Selene, Reboud, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6879-8405, Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Harvey, Andrew R. and Cooper, Jonathan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-1050 (2022) Changes in oxygenation levels during moderate altitude simulation (hypoxia-induced): a pilot study investigating the impact of skin pigmentation in pulse oximetry. In: Scholkmann, Felix, LaManna, Joseph and Wolf, Ursula (eds.) Oxygen Transport to Tissue XLIII. Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB), 1395. Springer: Cham, Switzerland, pp. 391-396. ISBN 9783031141898 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-14190-4_64)

Conference Proceedings

Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X, Guerrero-Zuñiga, Selene, Reboud, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6879-8405, Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Harvey, Andrew, Cooper, Jonathan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-1050, Pfefer, T. Joshua, Hwang, Jeeseong and Vargas, Gracie (2023) Comparison of Pulse Oximetry Measurements Between High and Low Skin Pigmentation. In: SPIE BiOS, 2023, San Francisco, Ca., US, 28 Jan-2 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2651059)

Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X, Pazmino Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Reboud, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6879-8405, Harvey, Andrew R., Cooper, Jonathan M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-1050, Mahajan, Sumeet and Reichelt, Stefanie (2021) Analysis and Exploration of Heme Groups Using ATR-FTIR for Future Health Monitoring. In: SPIE PHOTONEX, Glasgow, UK, 28 Sep - 01 Oct 2021, (doi: 10.1117/12.2598646)

Pazmino-Betancourth, Mauro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4259-0611, Ochoa-Gutierrez, Victor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-365X and Childs, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8131 (2020) Organic Polymers Classification using QCL Spectroscopy. In: Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources 2020, Washington DC, USA, 16–20 November 2020, ISBN 9781943580736

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 17:41:18 2025 BST.

Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Quantum Cascade Lasers as a surveillance tool for malaria vectors
    The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
    2024 - 2025
     
  • One for the ages: Can mid-infrared spectroscopy be used to successfully determine the age of adult tsetse?
    Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
    2023 - 2024
     

Professional activities & recognition

Selected international presentations

  • 2022: PanAfrican Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) (Rwanda)
  • 2023: British Society for Parasitology Spring (Endinburgh)
  • 2023: PanAfrican Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) (Ethiopia)

Research datasets

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Number of items: 3.

2025

Pazmino Betancourth, M. , Baldini, F. , Childs, D. and Gonzalez Jimenez, M. (2025) Quantum cascade laser spectrometer characterization. [Data Collection]

2023

Pazmino Betancourth, M. , Casas Gomez-Uribarri, I., Mondragon-Shem, K., Babayan, S. , Baldini, F. and Lee Rafuse, H. (2023) Mid-infrared spectroscopy data from laboratory reared samples of Glossina spp. [Data Collection]

Pazmino Betancourth, M. (2023) Microdifuse reflectance spectra from Anopheles gambiae s.l. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 20:07:08 2025 BST.

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