Professional Attributes:

• I possession of an enviable degree of integrity, a virtue that forms the solid foundation for building trust with people.
• I have high competence in the academia.
• Focused and hard working.
• A deep appreciation of emotional intelligence and empathy, skills that enable me excel in interpersonal interactions.
• I enjoy 'thinking outside the box."

Core Competencies:

• Trapping and rearing of insects
• Insect surveys
• Taxonomic knowledge of arthropods of significance in agriculture and horticulture
• Growing plants in greenhouses
• Surveillance studies on food security
• Bioassays
• Experimental designs
• Real-time PCR
• Plant metabolite profiling using GC-MS
• Insect behaviour analysis using BORIS
• Statistical analyses
• Conducting research in a PC 2 laboratory
• Field and laboratory studies
• Degree-day development and phenology models

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