Current PhD projects

Pathways for agro-ecological intensification in mixed crop-livestock farming systems in Southern Mali, Phase II.

Multiple sensor data fusion and time-series analysis for near-real time monitoring and detecting changes in biophysical and chemical crop conditions.

Effects of salinity on physiological behavior, growth and leaf composition of the African Baobab (adansonia digitata L.).

Clever Cover Cropping: Optimizing resource stoichiometry for increased microbial diversity and functioning.

Molecular characterization of selected genera of clinical fungi using a novel proteomics approach.

The evolution of host control in symbiotic partnerships.

Poaching prevention through understanding dynamics of animal populations.

Cover crop diversity and productivity for building soil organic matter.

Agro-ecological diversity as tool to reduce the pressure of plant diseases: the case of panama disease in banana.

Wildlife diversity loss and emergence of tick-borne diseases in central Panama.

Innovative uses of indigenous woody amendments to enhance soil aggradation and crop productivity of Soudano-Sahelian agroecosystems.

Population genomics of natural enemies.

Exploring the genomic diversity within Chaetothyriales (Fungi, Ascomycota).

The relative importance of wild pollinators as an agricultural input in seed production.

Acaricide toxicology.

Community responses to extreme events explained by life-history traits of species.

The role of pathogens in structuring phytoplankton communities.

Phyogeographical patterns between the rain forest and the amazon forest: an approach with the familiy Dicranaceae s.l. (Bryophyta) and other haplolepdeous mosses.

The role of circadian timing of sexual behavior in the evolution of the noctuid moth Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae).

The effect of protozoa on soil Fertility.

The forgotten part of carbon cycling: organic matter storage and turnover in subsoils.

Detection and use of QTL in multi-parent population.

Effects of climate change on the colonization process and biodiversity of riparian plant communities.

Towards optimal research-led development approach: understanding the promotion, non (adoption) and impact of potato technology in the context of Southern Ethiopia.

Optimization of productivity and quality of irrigated Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) by smallholders in Ziway, Central Rift Valley Area of Ethiopia.

Optimizing ecosystem services to enhance agriculture.

Environmental profile and sustainability of Boswellia Papyrifera trees in Ethiopia

Explorative design for bacterial wilt management in potato production systems in Ethiopia.

The role of non-coding flaviviral RNA in virus replication and dissemination in mosquitoes.

Evolution of mycorrhizal specificaty in flowring plants.

Integrating active and optical remote sensing methods for estimation of carbon emission factors of tropical forest disturbances.

Land use changes in Russia and their impact on migrating geese

Apport, parasitic wasps as biodetectors.

Ecology and evolution of microbial communities in traditional Zambian fermented products.

Miniature master mind: cognitive consequences of experimental manipulation of microbrain size in minute parasitic wasps.

Assessing human pressures on African protected areas: Trends and drivers of land cover change in and around African protected areas.

Optimise cotton growth and architecture: a functional-structural plant modelling approach.

Understanding host legume X rhizobium strain interactions in common bean and chickpea.

Human induced and natural developments of coastal dune grasslands and its implications for management.

Using the Integrated vector management (IVM) approach to empower the community towards malaria elimination in Ruhuha, Rwanda.

Spatio-temporal approaches for satellite monitoring of global forest change dynamics.

Deciphering the mechanims underlying baculovirus-induced behavioral changes in insects: using proteomics and transcriptomics as tools.

Characterization of Microbial communities.

Use of phytoplankton consortia in alga biotechnology.

Linking microbial diversity to the functioning of soil food webs.

Living legacies: Plant-mediated changes in soil communities on above-ground plant-insect interactions.

Current management and status of soil organic matter and functional diversity in forests and woodlands in the Upper Tablón River Basin (UTRB), Chiapas, Mexico.

The supply and demand of soil data for regional land use analysis.

Above and belowground linkages in species functioning and ecosystem services in a mosaic montane landscape in the Upper Tablón River Basin (UTRB), Chiapas, Mexico.

Conserving biodiversity through climatically-smart silvo-pastoral systems in Mexico.