7 successful PhD defences at IBG-2: Congratulations!

We are very proud, that 7 of our Doctoral researchers defended their PhDs successful in the last 12 month at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Bonn-being now Dr. agr and Dr. rer nat.

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We are very proud, that 7 of our IBG-2 Doctoral researchers defended their PhDs successfully in the last 12 month at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Bonn. And a special congratulation to Hannah Lanzrath, who defended with an outstanding “summa cum laude” grade.

These were our happy “Drs.”:

Leonie Schoofs: Dr. rer. nat. at the RWTH Aachen, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Scienes “Lignin First Biorefinery Approach and Lignin Valorization

Saja Salattna: Dr. agr. at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences “UAV-based Imaging of Multispectral Reflectance and Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence for Crop Monitoring

Jim Buffat (in cooperation with IAS-8): Dr. agr. at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences “A machine learning-based approach to estimate solar-induced fluorescence from airborne and spaceborne hyperspectral data

Kwabena Mensah Agyei: Dr. agr. at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences „Photoassimiliates Transport and Distribution in Sugar Beet Taproots affected by Biotic Stress and Shoot Manipulations

Huaiyue Peng: Dr. agr. at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences: „ Understanding stress-induced dynamics of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence with leaf-level hyperspectral imaging

Hannah Lanzrath (in cooperation with IBG-1): Dr. rer. nat. at the RWTH Aachen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences: „Advancing Model-based Analysis of Tracer Transport Dynamics in Plants

Daniel Klasen: Dr. agr. at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences: „Transgenerational effects of elevated temperature on seed and seedling characteristics of Arabidopsis thaliana histone deacetylase mutants

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