Jana Zinkernagel

Prof. Dr. Jana Zinkernagel

Function: Head of Institute
Organizational Unit(s):Department of Vegetable CropsProfessorship for Vegetable Crops
Contact:
Phone: über +49 6722 502 511
eMail: Jana.Zinkernagel(at)hs-gm.de
Postal Address:Von-Lade-Straße 1
D-65366 Geisenheim
Address: Building 1000
Room 102
Von-Lade-Straße 2
65366 Geisenheim
Vita

Jana Zinkernagel holds a degree in horticultural sciences from the Technical University of Munich, Weihenstephan, with a focus on secondary metabolites. At the chair of Phytopathology, TUM, and at the Institute for Plant Production and Plant Breeding, LfL, she was working on Phytophthora infection of seed potatoes. In 2008, she obtained a PhD from the University of Gießen on the hydrophysiology of asparagus. This was followed by two years working as a scientist and deputy head of the Department of Vegetable Crops at the Geisenheim Research Centre. During this period, she spent a research stay at the INRA-Institute U.M.R. PIAF in Clermont-Ferrand working on plant hydraulic conductivity. Since December 2010, she is heading the Department of Vegetable Crops and is holding a professorship for Vegetable Crops at the Geisenheim University. Jana Zinkernagel is a board member of the German Horticultural Society, co-coordinator of the European Vegetable Research Institutes Network, Working Group Fertilization and Irrigation, member of the Board of Trustees of the agricultural and horticultural consulting field of the HMUKLV, and member of the Hessian EIP Agri advisitory committee, et al. She is also a reviewer for research foundations and scientific journals.

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