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Orp-Jauche, BE

Seraing, Belgium

I prepare, manage, and coordinate drug development and production projects for external customers.Main tasks:- Assist Business Development team in preparing quotations and setting up initial customer contracts.- Ensure coordination between the customer and the organization.- Prepare contracts, coordinate signature and proper execution.- Ensure that the.

I worked this year on the PotatoSmart project (funded by the Public Service of Wallonia), which focused on the development of innovative solutions to control potato late blight, in collaboration with CRA-W and FIWAP.- Monitoring of the spatio-temporal distribution of aerial inoculum of Phytophthora infestans using spore traps combined with a molecular test.

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

During 6 years, I divided my time between teaching students of the Faculty of Bioengineering (50%) and the realization of a thesis (50%) on the study of molecular interactions between an RNA virus, its protist vector, and sugar beet. Research: - Design and management of a long-term project (6 years)- Literature search and oral & written scientific.

During the pandemic, I volunteered to join a team in an accredited laboratory for the detection of COVID-19. I was in charge of performing RT-qPCR reactions and making the first interpretation of the results.

- Diagnosis of plant diseases/pests for professionals and private customers. Techniques: microscopy, ELISA, Immunofluorescence, PCR, RT-PCR, quantitative PCR, and in vitro culture. - Implementation and monitoring of efficacy trials of phytosanitary products under controlled conditions (biopesticides, pesticides, adjuvants...) - Advice to farmers, and other.

During this first full professional experience, I had the chance to work on two research projects related to plant health.- The first one was the study of the transmission of potato viruses by aphids.- The second one aimed at understanding the molecular interactions at the origin of the beneficial effects of silicon on biotic stresses in bananas, in.

Master [60] In Management (Shift Schedule), Management, Magna Cum Laude

This master's in management in shifted schedule allowed me to broaden my portfolio of skills, in connection with project management.

Master'S Degree, Bioengineering - Microbiology, Plant Pathology, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Régionale Enghiennoise Topics covered: Integrated crop protection Phytoclinics Plant health Plant pathology.

Bachelor'S Degree, Bioengineering

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