**Meet the editor**

Prof. Stanislav Trdan, head of the Chair of Phytomedicine, Agricultural Engineering, Crop Production, Pasture and Grassland Management (Dept. of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD (agricultural entomology) from the University of Ljubljana. Since 2006, he has been the president of the Plant Protection Society

of Slovenia, and since 2014 he has been full professor of plant protection. He is a member of many international and national research societies. He has organised two international symposia and (co)organised six national conferences in the field of plant protection. He has attended more than 30 international and 20 national conferences, workshops and seminars. Until now, he was a leader of four national scientific projects and a member of many national and international project groups. Dr. Trdan has published about 150 scientific papers, and he or the members of his research group have given approximately 120 presentations at symposia. He was the supervisor of seven PhD theses, ten MSc theses and approximately 90 undergraduate theses. He was a reviewer of more than 100 scientific papers from the field of agricultural entomology or plant protection. His fields of interest are agricultural entomology and zoology, integrated pest management, biological control and other alternatives for controlling plant pests and the efficacy of insecticides.
