stephan haefele

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Dr Stephan Haefele

Systems Agronomist

Sustainable Soils and Crops

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Location
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ
Tel
+44 (0) 1582 938 124
Email
stephan.haefele@rothamsted.ac.uk
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Biography

Stephan studied soil science and agronomy and spent a considerable part of his career in international research in Africa and Asia. He has now worked for 7 years in the UK, and his main research interests as a systems agronomist are focused on plant nutrition, soil health, and the relation between crop nutrition and crop quality for human consumption. Apart from his own research in a team of ten colleagues and PhD students, he is heading the Soil Science Section/Department at Rothamsted Research. He is also leading the spectral laboratory at Rothamsted which investigates new methods for soil and plant analysis. Currently, he is contributing to several ongoing projects funded by the BBSRC (Growing Health, Resilient Future Farming), ESA (Earth Observation for estimating and predicting crop nutrients) and OCP (New Soil and Plant Diagnostic Tools).

Strategic Programme

  • Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST)
  • Soil 2 Nutrition (S2N)

PhD Projects

  • Cereal transcription factors involved in drought tolerance.
  • Field based phenotyping tools for NUE characterization and breeding applications in wheat.

Awards

  • 2001 - PhD in Science, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • 1995 - MSc in Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • 1991 - BSc in Biology, Philipps University in Marburg/Lahn, Germany

Measures of Esteem

  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Field Crops Research Journal
  • Member of the Consulting Editorial Board of Agronomy Journal
  • Reviewer for the Kearney foundation
  • Adjunct professor, member of the graduate faculty of the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB)
  • Honorary Title of Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide
  • Supervision of 8 MSc students and 13 PhD students (2 on going)