Valentin Picasso, professor of cropping systems

Valentin Picasso's research focuses on developing sustainable and resilient cropping systems that exploit the benefits of perennials and crop diversity. An important question is how to best use new perennial crops that can provide both feed and food, such as the wheat relative Kernza and the oilseed silflower. In other projects, he evaluates cropping systems for a changing climate, and systems for intensive grazing that are also gentle on the environment.

Biography

Valentin Picasso was born in 1977 and grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied agricultural science at the Universidad de la Republica and continued with PhD studies at Iowa State University in the USA, where he defended a doctoral thesis on the intercropping of perennial cereals and forage crops in 2008. This was followed by postdoctoral visits at the University of California, Davis and Wageningen University and Research.

Valentin Picasso has worked with pastures and cropping systems that mimic natural ecosystems in various positions at his alma mater in Uruguay. From 2015 he had his base at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from 2022 as Associate Professor in forages and perennial grains.

Press photos

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