Liebisch, Frank, Dr.

ETH Zürich
Dr. Frank Liebisch
Institut f. Agrarwissenschaften
LFW A 8
Universitätstrasse 2
8092 Zuerich
Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 632 33 23
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Projects

• Opportunistic pheno-typing: using remote sensing technology out of a Zeppelin. Can regular fly overs be used to monitor and development differences of maize genotypes?
• A new sensor platform from Koubachi to measure micro climate and growth conditions of plants. Development of models for home cultivation assistance and testing in research experiments.
• Monitoring and modeling plant growth, a collaboration with Disney Research, Zürich

Curriculum vitae

• 05/2011-present
  Post doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Group of Crop Sciences (Prof. A. Walter).
• 04/2007- 04/2011
  Scientific collaborator/ PhD student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Group of Plant Nutrition (Prof. E. Frossard). Project on Soil, plant and environmental indicators to minimize phosphate inputs in permanent grasslands.
• 2001-2006
  Graduate student in the faculty of Horticultural Sciences at the Leibniz University Hanover, Germany.
  Diploma thesis in the Group of Plant Nutrition (Prof. Dr. W. Horst): Influence of fruit application of calcium and boron on yield and fruit quality of tomato Solanum lycopersicon, grown in net houses in Thailand
• 1999-2001
  Apprenticeship as Gardener, specialization for ornamental crops (Parks and gardens department, Jena)

Publications

• Liebisch (2011) Plant and soil indicators to assess the phosphorus nutrition status of agricultural grasslands. Diss.ETH No. 19573
• F. Liebisch, J. F. J. Max, G. Heine and W. J. Horst (2009): Blossom-end rot and fruit cracking of tomato grown in net-covered greenhouses in Central Thailand can partly be corrected by calcium and boron sprays. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science: 172 (1), 140-150 Link

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