Dr. Benjamin Leroy

Research Data Management

Tel: +49 (0) 8161 71 - 6252
E-Mail: benjamin.leroy(at)tum.de

Biography

Benjamin Leroy studied agriculture and food technology at the Institut Supérieur d'Agriculture Rhône-Alpes (ISARA) in Lyon, France, where he enrolled in a double-degree program in partnership with Wageningen University Research (WUR; the Netherlands). He earned his master’s degrees in Agroecology (WUR) and Agricultural engineering (ISARA) in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Between 2016 and 2022, he carried out research at the TUM on the impacts of insect outbreaks and their treatment with insecticides on forest resources and ecosystems, first as a PhD student and later as a postdoctoral researcher.

Since 2023, he has been working at the TUM Central Institute Hans Eisenmann Forum for Agricultural Sciences (HEF) as a project coordinator and data scientist in the National Research Data Infrastructure consortium for Agrosystem sciences (FAIRagro). In this project, he coordinates the work of multiple agrosystem research use cases that provide data resources and requirements as a basis for developing data management services for the agrosystem community. He is also in charge of designing ETL workflows to seamlessly integrate heterogeneous source data into input datasets for crop models.