Current PhD projects

Quantifying feedbacks between plant architecture, physiology and microclimate to analyse crop climate responses.

From Diagnosis to Design: Explaining yield gaps and resource use efficiency at farm and farming system level to explore options for sustainable intensification.

Governance for effective spatial data infrastructures.

Virus interactions in C. elegans.

Sustainable intensification of oil palm by identifying factors causing yield gaps and alleviating constraints to follow recommended GAP at farm level and exploration of current and future trade-offs between national biofuel policy, food security and env

Quest for socio-economic and ecological sustainability of forest management in Bolivian Amazonian communities.

Analysis of flight behaviour of mosquitos.

Modelling insect - plant interactions.

Bayesian geostatistics for multi-source and multi-scale mapping of soil and agronomic variables.

Mobile-based autonomous system for real time detection and removal of volunteer potatoes in sugar beet field.

Soil fertility and nutrient management at regional level in Ethiopia.

Experimentation and crop modelling to develop strategies for optimisation of cultivation and breeding in hemp.

Disease suppression in mushroom cultivation.

Image spectral\radiometry assessment for LPIS (Land Parcel Indentification System) applications.

Dynamic LED lighting in greenhouse horticulture - Estimation of carbon dioxide fixation.

The physiological basis of very high rates of photosynthesis in C3 plants.

Spatial distribution and dispersal of earthworms in a complex landscape: implications for ecosystem services.

Host status and partial resistance testing of crops for Meloidogyne chitwoodi.

Gradients of the NW flank of the Ecuadorian Andes: Characterizing ecological gradients in terms of vegetation, pollen and leaf wax biomarkers.

Development of effective strategies for the conservation of landscape wide aquatic biodiversity in agricultural areas.

Fire regimes and herbivore food quality in the dry monsoon forests of Bardiya National Park.

Strategies towards the sustainable intensification of agriculture in Lowland areas of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Multi-scale analysis of Trade-offs and Synergies in Small Scale Farming systems in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Impacts of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity & reserve effectiveness.

Developing and disseminating locally adaptable and socially and econimically acceptable strategies for prevention and damage control of parasitic weeds in rainfed systems is SSA.

JARAK: The commoditization of an alternative biofuel crop in Indonesia.

Agent based modelling for sustainable shrimp farming.

Understanding and predicting the phenotype of Phalaenopsis Orchids in different environments.

Optimal complexity of urban drainage system models accounting for spatial uncertainty propagation across different scales.

Measuring and modelling wind dispersal of plants in heterogeneous landscape.

Yield prediction based on QTLs for yield components using crop ecophysiological models.

Quality traits association in tomato: statistical Genomics

Long-term effects of hunting and selective logging on forests in French Guiana.

Analysis of microbial communities of soda lakes.

SQUASH - A Soil Quality Universally Applicable Soil Health assessment system.

The effect of deposited nitrogen on long-term carbon sequestration in forests depends on the formation of organo-mineral associations.

Competition, concentration and results in the Dutch Glasshouse Industry Sectors.

Advanced mixed models for plant breeding applications.

How interactions between soil-borne fungi and grassland plant species coexistence.

Impact of noise on vibrational communication in invertebrates

Carbon retention by phytoplankton and macrophytes in freshwater lakes.

Statistical modelling of behaviour and behavioural responses to psycho-pharmaca of rodent strains and rodent models of psychiatric and neurological diseases.

Management options to increase soil fertility of shifting cultivation agriculture with charcoal.

The mechnism underlying timing of reproduction.

MacroManagement

Exploring variation in photosynthesis, transpiration and growth among plants and leaves within tomato plant canopies using a dynamic functional-structural plant model.

Impact of man and climate on a unique tropical ecosystem.

Measuring regional and temporal variances in fire emission using RPAS.

Understanding rice drought tolerance mechanisms: System-level understanding of the whole-plant physiology of acclimation and adaption to field stress.

Genomics of host race formation in a phytophagous mite.