Carola Pekrun

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Carola Pekrun (born August 1963 in Saarbrücken ) is a German crop scientist. She is a university professor and vice-rector at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences (HfWU).

Live and act

Pekrun studied agricultural science with a focus on crop production at the Georg-August University Göttingen , degree in agricultural engineering in 1989. As a student at the Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, University of Goettingen, she wrote her dissertation: Studies on the secondary dormancy in canola and thus became the Dr. agr doctorates.

During subsequent research stays at the English research institute in Rothamsted Research (1994–1997), the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna in the field of crop production (1997–1998) and the University of Hohenheim at the Institute for Crop Science (1998–2004) she worked on numerous projects on environmentally friendly crop production. In 2003 he completed his habilitation for the subject of crop production with the subject of the habilitation thesis: Influence of soil cultivation on the survival of seeds and other parameters relating to crop production, with special consideration of the population dynamics of volunteer rape .

As a coordinator for organic farming and consumer protection at the University of Hohenheim, in 2004 Pekrun accepted the call to the University of Göttingen as a coordinator at the Research and Study Center for Agriculture and Environment. In 2006, Perkun accepted the call to professor for crop production and quality management at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Economics and Environment (HfWU). She is a member of numerous international agricultural science committees. As prorector at the HfWU, she is responsible for research and transfer as well as the sustainable development of the university .

Memberships in professional associations

  • Member of the editorial board of the journal for crop science
  • Reviewer for the journals European Journal of Agronomy, Agriculture, Applied Soil Ecology, Biomass and Bioenergy, Bioenergy Research, Bodenkultur, Canadian Journal of Plant Science, Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, Crop Protection, Plant Soil and Environment, Weed Research and various conference proceedings
  • Managing Director of the Society for Crop Science (2012-2014)
  • Managing Director of the Agricultural Working Group of the Nürtingen-Geislingen University Association (01/2014 - 06/2018)
  • Head of the working group Conservative tillage and direct sowing Baden-Württemberg (since 03/2016)
  • Spokesperson for the IAF directors and vice-rectors for research at the universities of applied sciences (HAW) in Baden-Württemberg (since 02/2018)

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on secondary dormancy in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) / Dissertation 1994
  • Influence of tillage on the persistence of seeds and other agricultural parameters with special consideration of the population dynamics of volunteer rape Habilschrift Hohenheim 2003
  • List of publications by Carola Petrun on the HfWU website

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carola Pekrun on the HfWU website
  2. ^ Carola Pekrun on the website of the University of Hohenheim
personal data
SURNAME Pekrun, Carola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor for crop production
DATE OF BIRTH August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken