José Miguel Campos Rivela is an Agricultural Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and holds a PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón. Researcher in the Sustainable Plant Protection program since 2004 and Institutional Delegate of the IRTA since 2019. The main areas of work as a researcher belong to the integrated management of pests: bioecology of pest species and auxiliary entomofauna, implementation of methods of biological and biotechnical control and development of sampling methods and establishment of intervention economics thresholds. He is the co-author of 66 scientific and technical publications in the field of entomology, plant protection, biological control and integrated pest management, and has made 23 contributions to national conferences and 28 to international ones. He has been an associate professor of Crop Control in the degree in Horticulture and Gardening (International University of Catalonia (UIC). Member of the Spanish Society of Applied Entomology (SEEA), of the working group of "Citrus-IPM" IOBC (International Organization for Biological Control) and the Citrus Committee of the Fruit.Net program (Generalitat de Catalunya) Has participated in 13 R&D projects funded in public, national and international calls, all in the field of biological and integrated control of pests of citrus, fruit, rice and Mediterranean crops. It has also participated in 19 R&D contracts with companies or administrations (national and / or international related to these fields. It has taught 44 days and courses aimed at the sector productive related to integrated pest control.
