Prof. Dr. ir. Christian Hermans

Professor Dr. Christian Hermans

Hermans is an F.R.S.-FNRS research associate and director of the Crop Production and Biostimulation Laboratory at the Brussels School of Bioengineering, ULB.

He is currently the coordinator of an EU network on Sustainable Crop Production. He gained his PhD degree from ULB and Geneva University, Switzerland. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Colorado State University, USA. The environmentally sustainable intensification of agricultural production is the core research theme of the Crop Nutrition unit. Crop characteristics are identified for improving resilience, while limiting the environmental footprint.

Keywords: Agronomy, biofortification, crop genetics, mineral nutrition, plant physiology.