Andrea Clavijo McCormick received her B.Sc. (2006) at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. After graduation, she was a Research Associate at Agrosavia (formerly Corpoica) in Colombia and conducted research at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2007–2009), obtaining her MSc degree in 2009 from Universidad Nueva Granada (Colombia). Then, she went to the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Germany) and completed her Ph.D. in 2014. She was a postdoc fellow at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) from 2014 to 2015. From 2016 to 2021, she was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Zoology at Massey University (New Zealand), where she retains an honorary research associate role. From 2021 to 2023, she worked at the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries in advisory roles in pest management and surveillance and diagnostics. She is interested in communication among plants and insects and its underlying mechanisms and aims to use this knowledge to develop sustainable pest management strategies and preserve native species and their habitats. She is committed to producing ethical and high-quality research outputs that contribute to the advancement of chemical ecology in New Zealand.