Dr. Ayaovi Agbessenou

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsPlant Cultivation, Plant Nutrition, Agricultural Technology
Keywordsendophytes, Tuta absoluta, baculovirus, biological control, RNAi technology
Honours and awards

2022: Fungi Division Travel Award winner at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

2021: Winner of the 2021 icipe’s Governing Council Award for the Best published science paper by an icipe scholar

2019: Dissertation Research Internship Programme (DRIP) for PhD fellowship at icipe

2018: Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) research grant, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium

2016: Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) research grant, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium

2015: Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) research grant, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium

2014: DAAD Scholarship for MPhil studies in Entomology at the University of Ghana

2012: MSc. Fellowship at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Biological Control Center for Africa, Cotonou, Benin

Current contact address

CountryKenya
CityNairobi
InstitutionInternational Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Johannes A. JehleInstitut für biologischen Pflanzenschutz, Julius Kühn-Institut - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen (JKI), Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Christian BorgemeisterZEFa, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2023

Programme(s)

2022Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs