VertiGrow Gemini Centre
Expertise and contact persons
Centre Leader
Industrial automation, process control, intermittent lighting for energy cost reduction.
Optics and light engineering, material development, waste heat utilisation, resources use, computation fluid dynamics.
Hybrid greenhouse, waste heat integration.
Landscape architecture, soil chemistry, climate adaptation, circular economy, life cycle assessment and sustainability assessment.
Plant physiology, hydroponic fertilizers, organic nutrient production.
Robotics for food processing, machine vision, ML, robotic food handling.
Akhil S Anand
Optimisation, reinforcement learning, robotics, energy systems.
David Weissbrodt
Circular economy, resource reuse in hydroponics, food safety in hydroponics, human waste-based nutrients, sustainable food production, hygienic design, and packaging.
Ann-Iren Kittang Jost
Space-based farming, technology and biology bridging, closed-loop systems, crop yield optimisation.