PhD Candidates

The risk of mosquito-born Zika virus transmission for the Netherlands.

Seed potato quality: technology and supply systems in Chencha, Ethiopia.

Alternatives to slash and burn for smallholder farmers through integrated crop-livestock-tree systems in the Brazilian Amazon.

Rebooting Potato: Understanding the process of Rebreeding Solanum tuberosum.

Learning from excellent organic farmers.

Ecophysiology and nutrition of Cocoa.

Long-term implications of soil and water conservation practices on the dynamics of erosion and hydrological functioning of watersheds in the highlands of Amhara, Ethiopia.

Minimizing chilling sensitivity and chilling injury in tomato.

Developing ware potatoes with improved quality for sustainable chain development in southern Ethiopia.

Characterizing land use trajectories and promoting recovery of degraded lands and ecosystem services in agro-forested landscapes.

Enhancing Farmer Credit Access: Facilitating Network Collaboration through Digital Information System.

Genetic diversity in Thioalkalivibrio stimulated through environmental stress.

Temperate Mediterranean Badlands: A (pre-) Holocene or Anthropocene phenomenon?

Biological control of the new invasive pest species Spotted Wing Drosophila.

Application of protozoa as new generation biofertilizers in sustainable agriculture.

Understanding the process of valley bottom gully formation and development to reduce reservoir sedimentation, The case of Northwest highlands of Ethiopia.

Belowground Plant-fungal Interactions

Induced Defences in Tomato.

Co-constructing market for neglected and underutilized species: explore the roles of agreoecological practices and collective governance to recognize and promote Andean quinoa.

Designing microbial inoculants to improve compost amendments for the restoration of degraded soils.

Analyzing trajectories of change, Investment risks, and potential for cooperation in surface water resource management for sustainable intensification of farming systems in Southern Bangladesh.

Biomass remote sensing for improving forest carbon and hydrological modelling.

Genetic architecture of Arabidopsis-stress interactions.

Analyzing climate change effects on cocoa production and its potential consequences for forest conservation.

Maize yield gaps and their mitigation in Ethiopia: an integrated assessment

Physiological and ecological strategies of soil bacteria belonging to the phylum Acidobacteria.

The biomass challenge: a multiple scale modelling approach to analyze biomass fluxes and production in the sudano-sahelian zone of Burkina-Faso.

Integrated rice and natural resources management in African Wetlands.

Towards sustainable access to quality seed potato: Case of decentralized multiplication and use of quality seed in North Rift region of Kenya.

Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Calamus javensis Blume complex (Arecaceae, Calamoideae)

Allorecognition in Basidiomycetes.

Micronutrient Enriched Fertilisers for Higher Yields and Micro-nutritious Rice Production in Uganda.

Community-level Assessment of Soil-based Ecosystem Services and Nutrient Management in the Framework of Functional Land Management in Northern Ethiopia.

Smart Monitoring: integrating innovative ecotoxicological water quality assessment.

Impact of optimizing agro-ecological intensification options on farmer’s resilience and livelihood in mixed crop and livestock systems in Burkina Faso.

Microbial ecology of sand filters used for the production of drinking water.

Unravelling China’s livestock transition: nutrient flows and greenhouse gas emissions.

Tipping the system: the difficult transition from chemical towards natural pest control in agriculture.

Dose-response Curves for –OMICS data in soil quality assessment (DrCOMICS)

CrypTICK - Unravelling the role of ticks and wildlife in the emergence of tick-borne encephalitis

Characterizing fire-related tropical forest change dynamics utilizing multi-sensor remote sensing data.

Emerging plant diseases: reducing the impact of Alternaria species on potato production.

Make it better: Enhancing plant defence and pollinator performance by amending rhizosphere microbiome.

Carbon cycling in deep-sea sponges.

Statistical integration of heterogeneous omics data sets using network reconstruction technology.

Linking smallholders to formal markets; Consequences of and options of Business models for Pro Poor Sourcing by Multinational Enterprises for the enabling environment of entrepreneurship of Smallholder farmers.

Symbionts to the rescue? - The presence and effects of protective endosymbionts in biologically controlled greenhouse aphids.

eDNA-based aquatic biodiversity and water quality assessment.

Biological control of emerging pest Echinothrips americanus and other new thrips pests in ornamental crops.

Landscape history in Marqués de Comillas: actors, policies, and colonization dynamics.