Armando Alfaro-Tapia holds a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Ecology (Université de Rennes1, France) and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences (Universidad de Talca, Chile), and he is currently a researcher at the Ceres Center (Chile). His research interests focus on the evolutionary and functional ecology of insects under both natural and anthropogenic environmental pressures, using pests and their natural enemies as a study model. Specifically, he is interested in studying how individual and population responses to different types of stress affect community structure, with consequences for the functioning of the agroecosystem and an emphasis on biological control. Currently, he is focusing on the role of habitat manipulation and landscape composition in pest–natural enemy interactions.