Professor of Entomology at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences of the University of Perugia. Coordinator of the Plant Protection Research Unit and member of the Department Board. He received his PhD in Entomology in 1992 at the University of Perugia. He was research associate at USDA-ARS, Weslaco, TX, USA in 1992; visiting scientist at the Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University in 1998-1999; lecturer at the University of Malta in 2007-2012 and at the C.I.H.E.A.M. – MAI-B in 2007-2023; visiting professor at the Université de Montréal in 2017 and 2018. Scientific interests are focused on tri-trophic interactions, insect behaviour, chemical and molecular ecology of parasitoids and predators. The research topics mostly concern the host selection behaviour of egg parasitoids, direct and indirect defences induced in plants by herbivorous insects, study of trophic webs and insect biodiversity, effects of insecticides and microplastics on insect behaviour. He has published more than 100 scientific articles, mostly in international journals, two book chapters and presented many contributions to congresses. He is a member of the editorial boards of Biological Control, Frontiers in Physiology, and Insects. He is Ordinary Academic of the Italian National Academy of Entomology and of the National Academy of Olive and Oil.

Rondoni, G., Chierici, E., Daher, E., Famiani, F., Brodeur, J. Conti, E. (2024). How exposure to a neonicotinoid pesticide affects innate and learned close-range foraging behaviour of a classical biological control agent. Biological Control, 196, 105568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2024.105568.

Rondoni, G., Chierici, E., Giovannini, L., Sabbatini-Peverieri, G., Roversi, P.F., Conti, E. (2022). Olfactory responses of Trissolcus mitsukurii to plants attacked by target and non-target stink bugs suggest low risk for biological control. Sci Rep 12, 1880 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05873-w

Sevarika, M., Rondoni, G., Ganassi, S., Pistillo, O.M, Germinara, G.S., De Cristofaro, A., Romani R., Conti, E. (2022). Behavioural and electrophysiological responses of Philaenus spumarius to odours from conspecifics. Sci Rep 12, 8402. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11885-3.

Rondoni, G., Chierici, E., Agnelli, A., Conti, E. (2021). Microplastics alter behavioural responses of an insect herbivore to a plant-soil system. Science of the Total Environment 787, 147716.

Conti, E., Avila, G., Barratt, B., Cingolani, F. et al. (2021). Biological control of invasive stink bugs: review of global state and future prospects. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 169: 28–51. DOI: 10.1111/eea.12967.

Bertoldi, V., Rondoni, G., Brodeur, J., Conti, E. (2019). An egg parasitoid efficiently exploits cues from a coevolved host but not those from a novel host. Frontiers in Physiology, 10, 746. DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00746.

Rondoni, G. Bertoldi, V., Malek, R., Djelouah, K., Moretti, C., Buonaurio, R., Conti, E. (2018). Vicia faba plants respond to oviposition by invasive Halyomorpha halys activating direct defences against offspring. Journal of Pest Science (2018) 91:671–679. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-018-0955-3.