Javier
Pitti Caballero

Biography

Agricultural Engineer with a specialization in Agrochemistry and Soil Science, graduated from the Agrarian University of Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, has a Master's Degree in Agricultural Business Management, a Postgraduate Degree in Higher Teaching, and also completed Doctorate studies in Agricultural Sciences and Organismal Biology at the University of Angers, France; in which he specialized in a nanoencapsulation technique for synthetic insecticides to increase their effectiveness and significantly reduce the doses conventionally used in agriculture. This work was carried out for four years in the laboratories of the French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) and the Functional Signaling Ion Channels and Receptors (SIFCIR) Laboratory. During his research project he participated as a speaker in various international conferences such as: Agrosym 2018 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Bio-Iberoamérica 2016 (Salamanca, Spain), Jornada Cientifica 2016 (Nantes, France), additionally, and as part of a select group of researchers linked to fertilizer formulation participated in the Course on Quality Control of Chemical and Biological Fertilizers, organized by ITEC in Mumbai, Republic of India.Dr. Pitti is author/co-author of various national and international scientific publications in indexed journals (Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 2019 and Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2018). He is a member of the College of Agricultural Engineers of Panama, President of the X Congress 2022 and is part of the SENACYT Evaluation Committee in different programs, both research and academic. During his professional life he has held positions as a supervisor of strawberry and vegetable production under protected environment conditions in private companies and since 2011 he has stood out as an Agricultural Researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Innovation of Panama (IDIAP). He recently received funding for the project: "Microencapsulation of microorganisms for the control of vegetable pests in Tierras Altas, Chiriquí", financed by SENACYT and is currently regional leader of the Consensus Project “Vertical Agriculture: Innovation for horticulture in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)”, which involves the participation of four countries: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama, which is financed by FONTAGRO. Additionally, he is a collaborator in the Project for Obtaining and Development of Potato and Sweet Potato Varieties with High Agronomic Performance and Nutritional Quality, the Onion Project and Leader of the Project: Technological Alternatives and Biocontrol Strategies Applied to the Horticultural Productive Systems of the Highlands .

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