Dr. Gerhard Gries is a Professor of Animal Communication Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. He is also the Industrial Research Chair in “Multimodal Animal Communication Ecology” supported by Scotts Canads Ltd. and BASF Canada Inc. and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Forest Entomology from the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen (Germany) in 1984. Supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, he joined Dr. John Borden’s laboratory at SFU in 1986. After a 2-year limited-term appointment, he became a tenure-track faculty member in 1991, reaching the rank of Full Professor in 2000. Dr. Gries’s lab studies mechanisms of insect/spider/animal communication and resource-foraging. His lab elucidates semiochemical, sonic, visual, infrared, and bacterial communication signals and foraging cues and investigates how these signals or cues may have evolved in response to community composition, scarceness of resources, and physical parameters of the habitat. His lab also develops findings of their research for the sophisticated and earth-friendly control of pest insects and animals in urban, agricultural, and forest settings.