Falko Feldmann

Falko Feldmann (born 1959 in Goslar, Germany) is a German biologist and practitioner of phytomedicine. He is coordinator of matters concerning approval and registration of active substances and agents for plant protection, including international cooperation on questions about European Plant Protection Laws. He also holds the post of Director of the Deutschen Phytomedizinischen Gesellschaft e.V. (DPG, German Phytomedical Society) and is involved in a number of organisations and committees relevant to plant protection.

Herr Feldmann studied biology at Braunschweig Technical University and gained a Diploma in Botany, Zoology, Microbiology and Soil Science. He expanded his expertise in the area of mycorrhizal fungi, which was grounded in his diploma work, through research visits to Gainesville, Florida, the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil, and the Rubber Research Centre (as it then was) of Embrapa, Manaus, in the Amazon area of Brazil. He obtained the qualification Dr. rer. nat. with a dissertation entitled The Mycorrhiza of the rubber tree Hevea spec. Müell. Arg.: Occurrence at natural sites and in plantations, effect on resistance reaction and utilisation in plantations at Braunschweig University.

From 1991 to 1996 he was a C1 Professor at the Institut für Angewandte Botanik (Institute of Applied Botany) at Hamburg University, and was coordinator of a German-Brazilian project aimed at recultivating abandon locations in areas of the Amazon basin. In parallel, he and his group further developed the biotechnical requisites for successful inoculation with mykorrhizal fungi in European horticulture.

From 1996 until 2001 he worked as a scientist at the Institut für Pflanzenkultur (Institute of Plant Culture) in Solkau (Germany) where he was involved in a number of research projects such as the practically-oriented production of mycorrhizal fungi in horticulture, stinging nettle culture, in vitro culture of shrubs and cultivation of endangered medicinal plants.

In 2001 Feldmann moved to the present Institut für Pflanzenschutz im Gartenbau und Forst (Institute of Horticultural and Forestry Plant Protection) in Braunschweig as a scientist, at first in the research department of the BMEL, later coordinating the evaluation and registration of plant protection agents and products and their alternatives. He was here again responsible for issues concerning the certification of production processes in horticulture and agriculture and for agricultural ethics.

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