Carmen S. Soares Pires

Dr. Carmen is undergraduated in Biology from the Federal University of Viçosa (1984), holds a master's degree in Entomology from the same university and a Ph.D in Biology fomr the Northern Arizona University (1998). She has been a researcher at Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology since 1989. She has experience in Ecology, with amphasis on Insect Ecology, working mainly o the following topics: population dynamics, plant-insect pest-natural enemies interaction, conservative biological control and pollination in agroecosystems. Since 2003, she has been involved in environmental risk analysis projects of stressors on non-target organisms (predatory insects, pollinators and non-target herbivores).