Experience

Vali Consulting GmbH

• Germany
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regulatory Affairs Manager Biostimulants

  • May 2021 - Present



Plant Response

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Scientific Officer

  • Sep 2016 - Sep 2020

  Leading several Research & Development projects on biosimulants that increase crop tolerance to biotic and/or abiotic stresses. Leading several Research & Development projects on biosimulants that increase crop tolerance to biotic and/or abiotic stresses.



ZMBP - University of Tübingen

• Independent research group leader

  • Mar 2008 - Aug 2016

  Principal Investigator of several research projects focusing on plant immunity.- Identification and characterization of novel elicitors from fungal Pathogens and their corresponding receptors in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.- Identification and functional characterization of microbial effectors suppressing plant immunity.

• Senior Post-Doc

  • Mar 2005 - Feb 2008

  Investigator in a consortium-based plant genomics initiative. Project “Functional Genomics of Local and Systemic Acquired Resistance in Arabidopsis ”.

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Jan 2004 - Feb 2005

  Investigator in a consortium-based functional genomics initiative on plant non-host disease resistance (GABI-NONHOST). Project “Identification of Arabidopsis genes involved in NPP1 perception and signal transduction”.



IPB Halle/s.

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Apr 2002 - Dec 2003

  Investigator in a consortium-based functional genomics initiative on plant non-host disease resistance (GABI-NONHOST). Project “Identification of Arabidopsis genes involved in NPP1 perception and signal transduction”.

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • May 1998 - Apr 2002

  Investigator on an industrial fund (KWS): “Engineering of non-host resistance in sugar beet toward the leaf spot pathogen Cercospora beticola. Side project: “The Parsley – Phytophthora sojae interaction: a model to study plant innate immunity”.