Dr. Benoit Guénard is an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the description of the patterns and mechanisms that forged biodiversity, how we perceive and describe biodiversity and what are the impacts of global threats such as habitat change or biological invasions? His work mainly uses ants, arguably one of the most successful groups of organisms, to study variation of biodiversity over time and space to address questions related to animal behaviour, biogeography, community ecology, conservation, macroecology and taxonomy.

Since 2011, he co-developed and co-led the Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics (GABI) Project and its related visualization website www.antmaps.org which provides the global distribution for over 15,300 species of ants, and represents one of the first global databases on insect distribution.