I am a Professor of Applied Entomology at the University of Thessaly, Greece and the director of the Laboratory of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology. I have a longstanding interest in insect ecology, biology and behaviour with special emphasis on life history evolution and on understanding plastic and adaptive responses of insects to environmental stress.
I am also interested in insect invasion biology and particularly in factors determining invasion success and biological traits of major invasive species. The development of modern, integrated management strategies that incorporate realistic biological information into spatial and temporal IPM algorithms is among my recent research avenues as well.