Dr. Désirée Bienert

[Tel: +49 8161 71 - 3405
E-Mail: desiree.bienert(at)tum.de

Biography

Désirée Bienert studied agricultural biology at the University of Hohenheim and specialized in molecular plant nutrition. At the University of Copenhagen she obtained her PhD in Molecular Plant Nutrition working on the physiological role of aquaporins in plants. Between 2008 and 2013 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium at the department of molecular physiology on the characterization of pleiotropic drug resistance proteins and their role in the immune response of plants. From 2016 to 2020 she worked in the Emmy Noether and independent research group “Metalloid Transport” at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben on the physiological relevance and transport of the essential metalloid boron in plants. Moving with the group to the Professorship of Crop Physiology at the Technical University of Munich, she completed her project in 2021.

In 2022 Désirée Bienert joined the Hans Eisenmann-Forum for Agricultural Sciences as a science manager in the field of climate change impact and serves as the contact for the module “sustainable land use and nutrition”.

Focus topics

• Climate change impact: AgMIP Bavaria
• Agri-Photovoltaic
• Module “Sustainable Land Use and Nutrition”