Prof. Nadir Erbilgin has been a Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta. He has been at the University of Alberta since 2007. He graduated from Istanbul University in 1991 and received an M.S. degree in Forest Entomology from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1996, and a Ph.D. degree in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin in 2001. He then conducted a postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he was an Associate Specialist Division of Organisms and Environment at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on (a) invasion biology, (b) plant-symbiont interactions, and (c) plant-insect-disease interactions.