University of Göttingen

Prof Dr. Michael Rostás (male) is Full Professor in Agricultural Entomology. He holds  a PhD in Biology with specialization in Chemical Ecology from the Free University of Berlin (Germany). In 2002, he was awarded a 2-year postdoc scholarship by the German Research Council (DFG) to carry out research on plant-fungus-insect interactions and the role of volatiles at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). From 2003-2010, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany II at the University of Würzburg (Germany) and took up a faculty position at Lincoln University (New Zealand), where he focused on fundamental and applied research in biological control. Since 2018, he is Head of the Division of Agricultural Entomology at UGOE. Michael has published 74 papers in leading journals and books (h index: 23 Scopus, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9722-6513). He is associate editor of Pest Management Science and recipient of the Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata-Prize (2007) awarded by the Netherlands Entomological Society.

Dr. Catalina Posada-Vergara (female) is postdoc and holds a PhD in Agricultural Sciences (2023) from the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her previous work focused on studying the mechanisms by which endophytic entomopathogenic fungi help the plant against insect pests and plant pathogens