Partner description
Partner role
Persons involved
Dr Joelle Herforth-Rahmé
Joelle is WP3 coordinator, and has been working in the Department of Crop sciences at FiBL CH since 2014. She is a biologist with a background in plant population genetics and have spent two years in an industrial start-up developing agricultural machinery using NIRS. Her research interests are focused on organic vegetable production, and include inputs, pest management, and variety testing. She conducts research on-farm and is particularly interested into solutions answering farmers’ needs. At the start of Minagris, Joelle was the project manager of RELACS and coordinating the work package on multi-location variety testing in the H2020 project BRESOV.
Dr Dominika Kundel
Dominika works in the Department of Soil Sciences with a focus on climate change-induced effects on soil biodiversity and crop yields. Dominika is interested in understanding the impacts of various environmental stressors on the soil microbiome in agricultural soils. She performs pot experiments under controlled conditions to study the effect of microplastics on plant performance and the activity of microorganisms in WP5.
Dr Andreas Fliessbach
Andreas heads the research area Soil Fertility and Climate in the Soil Sciences Dept of FiBL. He has more than 25 years of experience in soil biology of managed soil ecosystems in Europe and Africa and a publication record of 67 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals (H-Index 28, cited 4995 times). He coordinated complex projects with multiple international partners such as FertilCrop and ORM4Soil.
Anja Vieweger
Anja leads the group on cultivation techniques of vegetables and herbs in the Department of Crops Sciences at FiBL Switzerland. She has over 15 years’ experience in organic horticultural research; and spent the last 10 years working for the Organic Research Centre in the UK, focusing on farm system health, participatory research, stakeholder engagement and healthy food systems. Anja has formerly coordinated a work package on the development of long-term value chain strategies in the EU H2020 DiverIMPACTS project.
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