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Arrigo is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a beekeeper with more than 15 years of expertise in the professional sector. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Bee Health focusing on European populations of Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, surviving infestations with ectoparasitic mites, Varroa destructor, by means of natural selection. He is now working as a Post-Doc researcher and acting as a local coordinator of the Horizon 2020 B-GOOD project for sustainable beekeeping (Giving Beekeeping Guidance by Computational-assisted Decision Making, www.b-good-project.eu). He is also a co-chair of the COLOSS Survivors Task Force and the scientific coordinator at Honey Bee Watch, a citizen science initiative for studying naturally surviving Western honey bee colonies (www.honeybeewatch.com).