Nikos T. Papadopoulos is a Professor of Applied Entomology at the University of Thessaly, Greece, and the director of the Laboratory of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology. He has a longstanding interest in insect ecology, biology, and behavior with special emphasis on life history evolution and on understanding the plastic and adaptive responses of insects to environmental stress. Prof. Papadopoulos is also interested in insect invasion biology and is particularly interested in factors determining invasion success and the biological traits of major invasive species. The development of modern, integrated management strategies that incorporate realistic biological information into spatial and temporal IPM algorithms is also among his recent research avenues.