Steve Wratten

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Academic and Professional Background

  • Background:

    BSc

    MA; DSc; DSc

    PhD

    FRSNZ

    Professor of Ecology

  • Personal Resume:

    Steve runs a research group comprising four post-doctoral scientists and eight PhD students, and is also award-winning teacher of undergraduate students.

    He runs a six-year research programme on biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainable agriculture (LINX0303), funded by the Foundation for Research, Science & Technology.

    Many of the post-doctoral and PhD research projects in the group concern the ecological basis of biological control, especially conservation biological control of insect pests and diseases.

    Steve is on the organising committee of the Third International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods, taking place in Christchurch, New Zealand, in February 2009.