WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY – NETHERLANDS

 

Head of chair group Horticulture and Product Physiology

 

Topic: LED lighting used for Plant Photosynthesis.

 

 

Leo Marcelys is an advisor of the Mars One foundation. Mars one aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. If people wants to go to Mars they also need reliable food systems.

 

Associate editor for: Frontiers in Plant Science: Section Crop Science and Horticulture And Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology

 

Prof. Marcelis is professor in Crop Production in Low-Energy Greenhouses at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is leading the research team Crop Management, Physiology and Modelling of Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture, a research unit of 120 researchers within Wageningen UR that focusses on innovation in protected cultivation. He has over 25 years of experience in experimental and simulation research on plant growth in controlled environments such as greenhouses and climate rooms. He has (co-) authored more than 120 scientific articles.