Curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae:

04/2024 - present   PhD student at the Chair of Terrestrial Ecology Department of Ecology Technical University of Munich, Freising (Germany) under the supervision of Dr. R. Heinen and Prof. W. Weisser. Topic: “Intraspecific chemodiversity in Tanacetum vulgare shapes above- and belowground plant-associated communities”.

03/2023 - 09/2023     Master internship - Develop the use of entomopathogenic fungi, Beauveria bassiana, against the cabbage stem flea beetle on rapeseed.  L'Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRAE) Dijon, France.

09/2022 - 09/2023   European Master Degree in Plant Health in Sustainable Cropping Systems (M2) - L'institut Agro Montpellier, L'institut Agro Rennes, AgroParistech (France).

09/2021 – 09/2022   European Master Degree in Plant Health in Sustainable Cropping Systems(M1) - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia (Spain)

09/2099 – 12/2020  Teaching assistant - Crop Science department, University of Ghana.

10/2015 – 05/2019   Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Crop Science) - University of Ghana. 

Dissertation: The effect of cocopeat source and treatment type on the germination and growth of tomatoes. 

Research interest

Plant – insect- microbe interactions.  

Biological control 

Sustainable agriculture 

Projects

Project: Ecology and Evolution of Intraspecific Chemodiversity of Plants. P7: Intraspecific chemodiversity in Tanacetum vulgare shapes above- and belowground plant-associated communities.  DFG. 

https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/verbuende/chemodiversity/projects/p7/