• Modelling of disturbance damage of forest stands by wind and snow, including mechanical stress of trees
• Integrated pest control
• Forest fire spread model, forest fire prevention, forest fire threat
• Ecology and taxonomy of insects
• Phylogenesis of important herbivores worldwide
• Biodiversity of forest stands
• Study of recently important and spreading fungal pathogens
• Development of insect repellent and pesticide products
• Impact of climate change on the spread of forest pests
• Forecasts and models predicting the occurrence of pests
• Bark beetle issue – from genetic, tree, and land perspectives
• Complex studies of termite life
• Modern chemical ecology laboratory with research expertise on forest pest and tree samples
• State­-of­-the­-art “Forentomics“ (Forest Entomology using Omics) laboratory delineating molecular underpinnings behind forest pest adaptation to host
• RNA interference (RNAi) based next­-generation forest pest management