Controlled Environment Agriculture - Agricultural production of the future? - Claudia Luksch

Claudia Luksch
Studied Biology at the Universities of Mainz and Bonn in Germany, focussing on Enzymology and Microbiology (Diploma)
Worked at Scripps Research Institute in San Diego/California in the Department of Immunology
10 years experience in pharmaceutical sales, marketing and project management
in Germany
Since 2009 at TUM as a Science Manager, first in the field of bioinformatics
since 2014 at HEF in the field of agricultural sciences
Managing director and project manager at Hans Eisenmann-Forum for Agricultural Sciences at Technical University of Munich
leading a team of 7 science managers and supporting 30 HEF member chairs from various disciplines in agricultural sciences
Special interest/one of 4 focus topics at HEF: Vertical Farming
What she and her team do at HEF:
o Networking
o Initiating scientific research projects and supporting
research proposals
o Connecting scientists with stakeholders like NGOs,
farmers associations, politicians, etc.
o Knowledge transfer from science to society (HEF
academy, teacher workshops, school activities,...)
o Public relations: getting agricultural topics into media,
(print, TV, radio as well as social media)

Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/157om...

German-Ukrainian Autumn School in Agroecology and Urban Agriculture: https://www.hef.tum.de/young-scientis...