Assignments and Research Activities:

• Head of the work group digitalisation and precision viticulture
• Project coordination and supervision of different third-party funded research projects
• Development of sensor assisted, automated methods for an objective description of grapevine characteristics
• Digitalisation, linkage and communication
• Focus on: yield parameters, disease identification
• Establishment of
  
  • Field phenotyping platforms: PHENObot, Phenoliner (automated data acquisition)
  • Automated data processing (phenotyping pipeline)
  • Research data management
  • Imaging and non-imaging techniques in the lab and the field
  • Methods for precision viticulture

• Interdisciplinary cooperation in fields of:
  
  • Engineering
  • Programming of data bases
  • Algorithm development for image interpretation
  • Modelling of sensor data
  • AI

Memberships:

• BMEL competence network for „Digitalisation in agriculture“

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut