Dr. Italo Delalibera Jr. is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Acarology at the University of São Paulo in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Entomology from Cornell University (1998-2002) and was a post-doctorate research associate at the University of Wisconsin (2002-2003). His leading research is on microbe–arthropod interactions, with an emphasis on the microbial control of agricultural pests. He is the director of the EMBRAPII unit (Brazilian Company for Industrial Research and Innovation) on Bioinputs and Biotechnological Processes Applied to Agriculture; coordinator of The
National Institute of Science and Technology (INCT) in Innovative Bioinputs; and the principal investigator on microbials at SPARCBio, the São Paulo Advanced Research Center on Biological Control.
