Claudio Gratton

Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Claudio Gratton has been on the faculty in the Department of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2003. His research group works broadly on the landscape ecology of arthropod food webs in agricultural landscapes and the conservation of insects that are considered beneficial. He has been part of bee and butterfly conservation efforts in the state. He has also studied the ecology of food webs at the land-water interface. Gratton is currently co-director of the USDA-funded Grassland 2.0 CAP project.

Gratton received his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1991) and his PhD in entomology from the University of California–Berkeley (1997). At UW–Madison he teaches courses in basic and applied insect ecology, agroecology, and field ecology. He serves as subject matter editor of Ecological Applications and Basic and Applied Ecology.

He is a recipient of a Kellett Professorship (2021) and Vilas Research Fellows award (2017), and is a Stanford-Woods Institute Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellow (2013).