Gisela Quaglia is a Research Programme Officer in the Research and Innovation unit at the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI). In this role, she contributes to DG AGRI’s research and innovation agenda in plant health, crop protection and breeding.
Before joining DG AGRI in 2020, Gisela was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie PhD fellow in the EU’s Horizon 2020 project INSPIRATION, an Innovative Training Network. She obtained her PhD in Biosciences Engineering from Ghent University and holds a Chemical Engineering degree, along with a Master’s degree in Environmental Protection and Agricultural Food Production from the University of Hohenheim.