Short CV of Giselher Grabenweger
Giselher Grabenweger is entomologist at the Department of Agricultural Entomology at the Institute of Plant Health (I-PGH), Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). He has twelve years of experience in field experiments and project-related entomological research.
His current work is focussed on the diagnosis, monitoring and management of quarantine pest insects, especially of pests damaging field crops, e.g. Diabrotica virgifera. He was involved in research on invasive alien species such as the horse chestnut leafminer, Cameraria ohridella and on parasitoids as biocontrol agents. In the course of these studies he was participating in national and international research projects, including one EU-funded project within the 5th Framework Programme ("CONTROCAM", QLK5-2000-CT-01684). He started his scientific carrier with his Master's (1998) and PhD (2003) in Zoology at the University of Vienna, Austria. After three years as a research assistant at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna (2001-2004) and two years at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin (2005 - 2006) he got his current position at AGES Vienna in November 2006.
The employment gave him the opportunity to join IOBC WPRS. Since then, he was participating in the IWGO-meetings in Vienna (2006) and Munich (2009) and in the WG meeting "Pheromones and other semiochemicals in integrated production" in Lund (2007). In January 2010, he joined the IOBC WPRS council as a deputy member and was assigned liaison officer for the WGs "Pheromones and other semiochemicals in integrated production" and "Insect pathogens and entomoparasitic nematodes".
