Bioeconomy Science Center
Research and cooperation for a sustainable bioeconomy
Bioeconomy Science Center
Research and cooperation for a sustainable bioeconomy

People at BioSC

New Executive Board in office

In September and October, the core group leaders of the four BioSc locations elected new representatives to the Executive Board. These have now been confirmed by the heads of the four member institutions. Here are the new EB members:

 
New BioSC Core Group: Prof. Dr. Eike Lüdeling, University of Bonn

The BioSC welcomes a new core group: Prof Dr. Eike Lüdeling heads the Horticultural Sciences Department at the Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn. Among other horticultural topics, he studies climate risks in orcharding with his team and investigates the development of decision scientific analysis strategies for agricultural research. Another focus of the group is the scientific support for agricultural development processes.

With their research, the Bonn horticultural scientists are attempting to support horticultural operations in decision processes, particularly with regard to climate change adaption. In order to meet the complexity of the horticultural system and take account of the often incomplete level of knowledge, great importance is attached to the use of expert knowledge, flawless documentation of the state of knowledge and the adequate consideration of uncertainties.

After his doctoral thesis at the University of Kassel (2007), which examined the sustainability of mountain oases in Oman, Eike Lüdeling spent two years at the University of California in Davis, where his work focused on dormancy processes in fruit trees and associated climate risks. From 2010 to 2018, he worked at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, first as climate change expert and starting in 2013 as a decision analyst. Between 2014 and 2018 he carried out this responsibility based at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) in Bonn. In April 2018, Eike Lüdeling took over the Chair for Horticultural Sciences in Bonn.

Prof. Dr. Eike Lüdeling

INRES-Gartenbauwissenschaft
Auf dem Hügel 6
D-53121 Bonn

Tel.: +49 (0)228-73 5135
Fax: +49 (0)228-73 5764

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New at the office: Dr. Stephani Baum

Since August of this year, Dr. Stephani Baum has strengthened the team of the BioSc office. She studied biology at the RWTH Aachen University and discovered her passion for plant science during this time. In 2016, she completed her doctorate at the Institute for Plant Physiology in the working group of Prof. Dr. Uwe Conrath. The focus of her doctoral thesis was the investigation of molecular mechanisms of plant defense against Arabidopsis thaliana. Following a two-year post-doctoral period at the RWTH, Stephani Baum now adds to the BioSC office in the field scientific and administrative coordination.

Dr. Stephani Baum

BioSC Office
c/o Forschungszentrum Jülich / IBG-2
52425 Jülich

Tel.: +49-(0)2461-61-6490
E-Mail: s.baum@fz-juelich.de