Nina Fatouros

Nina Fatouros is an Associate Professor in Biosystematics at Wageningen University & Research. Her work focuses on insect-plant interactions, particularly oviposition strategies and plant defense mechanisms.

Research Interests:

• Parasitoid wasp ecology
• Plant hypersensitive responses to insect eggs
• Chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions
• Biosystematics and evolutionary adaptations

Recent publications highlight trends in agroecology, Brassica resistance, and insect egg plasticity. Her supervised PhD projects address biological control, molecular mechanisms in plant-insect interactions, and biodiversity applications.

Notable Supervised Projects:

• Winning the battle early: Crop resistance breeding through egg-killing responses
• Trichogramma population dynamics in organic cabbage fields
• Sex scent evolution in butterflies under parasitoid pressure