Alfredo Venturo, who studied experimental and applied biology at the University of Pavia (ITA), has become a new Ph.D. student in the Insect Ecology Group. He also worked for a year as an assistant for Gabor Lövei at the Flakkebjerg Research Center (DEN). Now, he is starting in our research team his Ph.D. studies focused on the spatial distribution of carabid beetles and the ecosystem services they provide in agricultural landscape.