Gábor Lövei - Biography#

Trained at the University of Szeged, Hungary, Lövei obtained his PhD on the topic of bird migration, after which he started working in entomology, focusing on biodiversity in agricultural habitats, natural pest control, and feeding ecology of beneficial arthropods in Hungary (until 1989) and Italy (1982-1984).

While resident in New Zealand (1989-1998), he studied agroecology, invasion ecology, and initiated research on the environmental impact of genetically manipulated plants (1994-1998). Since moving to Denmark in 1998, he continued to study landscape ecology, ecology of sustainable agriculture, esp. on natural enemy activity, invasion ecology and urban ecology. He published 130+ peer-reviewed scientific papers, inc. in Nature, TREE, Global Ecology & Biogeography, Annual Review Entomology. He has a Hirsch index of H=35 (Google Scholar, Jan 2019), with 5505 citations.

Lövei lead international projects on GM risk assessment in Europe, China and Africa, and took leading roles in several European agroecological projects. Between 2006-2012, he was an expert of the EFSA Plant Health Panel, Parma, Italy (Vice Chair 2006-2009).