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Joelle Herforth-Rahmé

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • Research Vegetable production
  • Management international research projects

Projects

StatusFiBLTitleStartEnd
ongoing CH Turning food waste into sustainable soil improvers for better soil health and improved food systems (Waste4Soil) 01.06.2023 31.05.2027
ongoing CHEU Paving the Way towards Digitalisation Enabling Agroecology for European Farming Systems (PATH2DEA) 01.01.2023 31.12.2025
ongoing CHDEEU Organic seed and plant breeding to accelerate sustainable and diverse food systems in Europe (LiveSeeding) 01.10.2022 30.09.2026
ongoing ATCH MIcro- and NAno-Plastics in AGRIcultural Soils: sources, environmental fate and impacts on ecosystem services and overall sustainability (MINAGRIS) 01.09.2021 31.08.2026
completed CH Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable production (BRESOV) 01.05.2018 30.04.2023
completed CH Replacement of Contentious Inputs in organic farming Systems (RELACS) 01.05.2018 30.04.2022
completed CH Organic and bio-dynamic vegetable production in low-energy GREENhouses – sustainable, RESILIENT and innovative food production systems (Greenresilient) 02.04.2018 01.10.2021
completed CH Development and technical implementation of modern seed technologies (cleaning, thermal seed treatment, priming, coating with microorganisms) (Saatguttechnologie) 01.10.2016 30.04.2021
completed CH Robust planting material from seeds to young plants - an implementation oriented chain approach (COST Bioseedling) 01.03.2014 28.02.2016
completed CH GREENCITY SWITZERLAND - Development of a label for sustainable green cities (GSS) 20.02.2013 20.02.2016
completed CH Organic greenhouse horticulture (OGH) 01.01.2013 31.12.2016
ongoing CH Development of a range of organic vegetables and ornamentals with heirloom varieties 01.01.2002

Training / professional career

  • Since 2014 Scientific collaborator in the Department of Crop Sciences FiBL, Frick
  • 2011 - 2013 Research Scientist at QualySense AG, Dübendorf
  • 2010 Postdoc Researcher, ETH Zurich
  • 2006 - 2009 PhD studies (thesis title: “Components of reproductive isolation between two closely related Silene species (Caryophyllaceae)”) in the group of Integrative Biology, Prof. Dr. Alex Widmer and Dr. Sophie Karrenberg, ETH Zurich

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

  • Rahmé J., Suter L., Widmer A. and Karrenberg S. (2014) Inheritance and reproductive consequences of floral anthocyanin deficiency in Silene dioica (Caryophyllaceae). American Journal of Botany. August 2014 101:1388-1392; doi:10.3732/ajb.1400136
  • Rahmé J., Widmer A. and Karrenberg S. (2009) Pollen competition as an asymmetric reproductive barrier between two closely related Silene species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1937–1943.
  • Rahmé J. (2009) Components of reproductive isolation between two closely related Silene species (Caryophyllaceae). ETH Zurich Diss. Nr. 18810.
  • Moreau J., Rahmé J., Benrey B. and Thiery D. (2008) Larval host plant origin
    modifies the adult oviposition preference of the female European grapevine moth Lobesia botrana. Naturwissenschaften 95: 317–324.