Ilyas Siddique is Professor of Agroecosystems and currently heads the Applied Ecology Lab in the Department of Crop Science of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He graduated in Tropical Environmental Science from The University of Aberdeen (UK), with a PhD in Ecology from The University of Queensland (Australia), and a postdoctoral fellowship in Ecosystem Ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Ilyas teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in agroecology, agroforestry, syntropic agriculture, weed ecology, research synthesis, epistemology, scientific methods and communication.