CASE STUDIES
RI fellowships provide specialist training, but also lay the foundation for long-term international partnerships and in many cases, contribute to the successful careers of the RI fellows in their home countries. The case studies here highlight just a few of our thriving alumni.

DR SUNDAY EKESI

RI Fellow from Kenya 2003

The RI fellowship significantly expanded my horizon and offered me so many opportunities in the field of horticulture and plant protection”

Current position: Director of Research, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology.

Project Title: Non-pest aphids as reservoirs for Erynia neoaphidis.

DR PEDRO MACHADO

RI Fellow from Brazil 1997

The RI Fellowship enabled a pioneer study on soil carbon dynamics of an Oxisol under zero-till systems, which ended up in publication at the Soil Use and Management, a journal of the British Soil Science Society. It was the starting point of several other studies throughout Brazil.”

Current position: Coordinator of Embrapa Labex Europe.

Project Title: Use of 13C natural abundance techniques to investigate soil organic matter dynamics.

DR SORAYA BERTOLI

RI Fellow from Brazil 1995

This journey has been fascinating, full of surprises and joy. And it was only possible with the support of RI at the early stage of my career, it helped shaped me become a researcher with passion for the goals I want to achieve: our little contribution to agriculture to help feed the world.”

Current position: Senior Research Scientist, University of Georgia, USA.

Project Title: The development of molecular markers and the molecular techniques for identifying the entomogenous fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae, used as biological control agent.

DR LYDIE-STELLA KOUTIKA

RI fellow from Republic of the Congo 2011

RIFS gave me a big chance to reorient my career, so it could benefit not only to institution and country, but also to the continent by becoming an African Union laureate in 2014”

Current position: Deputy Director of Centre de Recherche sur la Durabilité et la Productivité des Plantations Industrielles (CRDPI), Republic of the Congo.

Project Title: Improving the efficiency of soluble fertilizer phosphate and rock phosphate (P) utilization in highly P-fixing African soils through manipulation of P cycling through the soil microbial biomass.

PROF DEYING MA

RI Fellow from China 2006

Current position: Head of Entomology Department, Xinjiang Agricultural University, China.

Project Title: Biology and insecticide resistance of whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci) on crops in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China.

PROF NAOMI TANGONAN

RI Fellow from The Philippines 1997

RIFS has upgraded my know-how, made me more productive and credible to my students/colleagues, and led my institution and me to more outputs in Instruction, Research, Extension, and Production (my University’s four mandates).”

Current position: Head of the Plant Pathology Research Laboratory, University of Southern Minanao Agricultural research Centre, Philippines.

Project Title: Molecular studies of various isolates of the pathogen causing black scurf of potato.

DR MARUTHI VEGAPAREDDY

RI Fellow from India 2009

Rothamsted International Fellowship Scheme gave me recognition with credibility in a focused area of research”

Current position: Head of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad.

Project Title: Monitoring and modelling root growth and architecture of different crop genotypes with respect to optimising resource capture (water, nutrients) in dryland agriculture.

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