With a PhD in Biological Sciences, Sergio Marcelo Ovruski graduated from the National University of Tucumán (Argentina) in 1995; he has been working with economically important fruit flies and their hymenopterous parasitoids since 1998, as researcher of the National Council of Science and Technology of Argentina (CONICET in Spanish). He is currently a CONICET Senior Researcher at the Pilot Plant of Industrial Microbiological Processes and Biotechnology (PROIMI in Spanish) in Tucumán, Argentina. He is the head of the Bioecoetological Research of Fruit Flies and their Natural Enemies Laboratory, which belongs to the Pest Biological Control Department. His research topics involve biology, ecology, behavior and management via eco-friendly methods, mainly biological control. He has been the director and co-director of numerous PhD theses, doctoral and postdoctoral fellows, junior researchers of CONICET, national and international research projects and technological development and research agreements between CONICET and provincial governments from Argentina. He is also a past fellow of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the coordinator of the mass rearing production of medfly and parasitoids at San Juan Biofactory, Argentina. Scopus ID: 6603080215, ORCID number: 0000-0002-0137-4499.