Giovanni Burgio is appointed as Full Professor at the Department Agricultural Science (DipSA),
of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Alma Mater
Studiorum University of Bologna. In 2007, he received PhD from
University of Wageningen.
His main topic of interest is agricultural entomology and
conservation biological control, including landscape management and
conservation of insect fauna. His particular expertise is the role
and management of non-crop plants (ecological infrastructures) in
rural landscape to enhance beneficial insect populations. Within
this field, he is also studying advanced techniques like
geostatistics for spatial data analysis of insects.
Other topics of interest include: integrated pest management of
insects, sampling techniques and modelling applied to insects, and
insect systematics. He is now teaching Landscape
entomology, Biological and integrated
control of insects, Functional biodiversity.
In 2003, he organized the
first meeting IOBC/WPRS Working Group Meeting on Landscape
management for functional biodiversity in Bologna, and
he is member of the scientific advisory board of this IOBC/WPRS
Working Group on Landscape Management.
