I am a PhD student co-supervised by Ayco Tack (my main supervisor is Kristoffer Hylander). I received a Master’s degree in Nematology (European Masters of Science in Nematology, an Erasmus Mundus Program) from Ghent University in 2014. Since then I had been working at Jimma University (Ethiopia) until I joined Stockholm University as a PhD student in 2016. As my PhD project, I work on the major fungal diseases of coffee along a management gradient of the crop in its native range. I am mainly interested to understand how the variation in biotic and abiotic environmental drivers and coffee management along the gradient could affect the dynamics of the major fungal diseases of coffee.
Beyene Hailu
PhD student (co-supervisor)