WSCSE-2026

Barbara Čeh, PhD, did her graduation thesis in the field of agronomy at the Biotechnical Faculty of the University in Ljubljana (BF), Agronomy Department became a doctor of science at the same faculty. During postgraduate studies and since then she has been working in research and development in the field of field crop production; first at the BF, then at the Slovenian Institute of Hop Research and Brewing (IHPS). She was involved in pedagogic work; first as assistant and then as an assistant professor at BF, in the field of field crop production. Since 2011, she has been the representative from Slovenia in the Fertilizers Europe working group in Brussels. She leads the professional tasks Introduction of New and Foreign Hop Varieties to Practise and Technology of Hop Production and Processing, financed by the Ministry for agriculture and spatial planning of RS. Her main research interests are: fertilization, plant nutrition, nitrogen, field crop production, composting, (bio)circular economy, hop (Humulus lupulus L.), aromatic and medicinal plants. She was the project manager for the EU project LIFE BioTHOP (Hop waste transformation into novel product assortments for packaging and horticulture sector). She was/is the leader – responsible for complete project managing of many other target research projects.