Benjamin Walch

Affiliation / Function

Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
ongoing	CH	Decentralised practical testing network for fruit varieties (DEPO)	01.01.2025	31.12.2028
completed	CH	Season extension for Swiss organic table strawberries	01.01.2024	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Qualitative and quantitative promotion of Swiss organic pear cultivation	01.01.2024	31.12.2027
ongoing	CH	Swiss production of organic raspberries for processing	01.11.2022	31.12.2025

Since 2024 Scientific and technical collaborator at FiBL Switzerland
2022 - 2024 World trip, permaculture internship in Costa Rica and farm stay in Mexico
2018 - 2022 Product manager at Andermatt Biogarten, Switzerland
2017 Scientific and technical collaborator in the fruit phytopathology group, Agroscope, Switzerland
2016 - 2017 Postgraduate internship in the fruit phytopathology and fruit extension groups, Agroscope, Switzerland
2015 - 2016 Master's thesis at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
2015 Erasmus semester, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
2014 - 2016 International Master in Horticultural Science, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2009 - 2014 Bachelor in Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Walch, B., Schöneberg, A., Perren, S. (2017): Apfelunterlagen im Test – Alternativen zu M9. Schweizer Zeitschrift für Obst- und Weinbau 153 (6), 8-12
Reininger V., Schöneberg A., Walch B., Holliger E. (2017): Feuerbrand - Pflanzenschutzmittelversuch 2017. Schweizer Zeitschrift für Obst- und Weinbau, 153 (21), 8-11