Successful promotion by Marco Donat

 

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After 3.5 years as a doctoral student at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura and at the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research under the supervision of Dr. Kathrin Grahmann, Marco Donat successfully completed his doctoral thesis on "Digital tools to analyze high-dimensional data sets for diversified field arrangements" on May 30, 2024.

Since 2019, he has been working in the working group "Resource-efficient cropping systems" and has been involved in the projects "DAKIS - Digital Knowledge and Information System for Agriculture" and "patchCROP - An experimental approach to agricultural diversification through patch-like field arrangements at landscape level: The landscape laboratory "patchCROP". We congratulate Marco Donat on his successfully defended thesis and wish him all the best for the future.

Publications:

• Patch cropping- a new methodological approach to determine new field arrangements that increase the multifunctionality of agricultural landscapes 
• Field path optimization to reduce headland and turning maneuvers at regional scales: automated detection of cultivation direction in the state of Brandenburg, Germany
• Orientation of tree rows in alley cropping systems matters – The “ShadOT” modelling tool for tree growth and shading effects​​​ ​