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Dr. Thomas Jung (TJ)

has more than 30 years of experience in plant pathology and is one of the most renowned Phytophthora experts in the world. He was awarded the Arnold-Sommerfeld Award of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Through his scientific career TJ has studied the diversity, biogeography, ecology, pathogenicity and evolution of Phytophthora and other oomycete species, their impacts on natural and semi-natural ecosystems, their pathways and possible management and control options for Phytophthora diseases. His major scientific achievements were (1) the first evidences of Phytophthora species being involved in widespread forest declines in Europe; (2) the development of new methods for the isolation of Phytophthora spp. and for the assessment of fine root damages; (3) the coordination of the largest forest disease survey in European history (Alnus mortality in Bavaria); 4) coordination of a European survey in 2,000 nursery stands and 2,500 young plantations, demonstrating for the first time almost ubiquitous Phytophthora infestations and the importance of the nursery pathway in spread of Phytophthora pathogens to natural and managed ecosystems; (5) first demonstration of the interaction between invasive Phytophthora pathogens and climatic extremes triggering a large-scale epidemic forest decline (Fagus sylvatica); (6) the detection and description of 99 new Phytophthora species, 8 new Halophytophthora species and the new genera Nothophytophthora including 8 new Nothophytophthora species, and Synchrospora; (7) the identification of the geographic origins of the invasive global forest pathogens Phytophthora ramorum, P. cinnamomi, P. kernoviae, P. plurivora, P. pseudosyringae and P. ×cambivora; and (8) identification of the hybrid nature of Phytophthora ×cambivora and contributions to the evolutionary role of hybridizations in the genus Phytophthora.

Stations in his professional career were the Technical University of Munich, the Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, the Centre for Phytophthora Science and Management (Murdoch University, Australia), the University of Extremadura (Plasencia, Spain), and the University of Algarve (Faro, Portugal). TJ published 107 papers in international peer review journals and 4 book chapters. His current h index at Scopus is 44, with 6860 citations. He was invited speaker at 14 international and national conferences and 41 research institutes and associations, and gave oral presentations at 38 international meetings TJ completed the supervision of 11 PhD and 7 Master students, supervises currently 3 PhD students, and gave training courses in Phytophthora methods for PhD students, Post-docs and senior researchers from 59 international research institutes. This extensive dedication to postgraduate training and his leading role in the international networks International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Unit 7.02.09 Phytophthora in Forests and Natural Ecosystems (Co-Chair until 2024), EU COST Action FP 0801 – Established and Emerging Phytophthora: Increasing Threats to Woodland and Forest Ecosystems in Europe (working group leader) and COST Action FP 1002 – Pathway Evaluation and Pest Risk Management In Transport (Vice-chair) and his participation in the Oomycete Molecular Genetics Network (OMGN), the ‘European network on emerging diseases and invasive species threats to European Forest Ecosystems’ and in IUFRO Unit 7.03.12 Alien Invasive Species and International Trade enabled TJ to build up a large network that includes most of the leading international Phytophthora researchers. TJ cooperated with many international research groups on a wide range of Phytophthora topics and conducted research in 22 European countries of Europe, was leader of 11 scientific expeditions to Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Morocco, Taiwan and Vietnam, and coordinator of 7 scientific expeditions to Nicaragua, Panama, Canada, USA and Mongolia. TJ participated in eight international and 27 national R&D projects. He was the Principal Investigator of the exploratory project QuerResist ‘Screening of Asian oak species for potential resistance to Phytophthora spp.’, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT); coordinated the Working Group ‘Detection and early warning of fungal and oomycete pathogens’ in the European BiodivERsA R&D project RESIPATH; participated in the Horizon 2020 project PONTE ‘Pest Organisms Threatening Europe’; was the PI of the MendelU research team and Coordinator of Task 1.5 ‘Diversity and role of pathogens in restoration’ in the BiodivERsA project RESTORESEAS ‘Marine forests of animals, plants and algae: nature-based tools to protect and restore biodiversity’; is the PI of the MendelU research team and Coordinator of WP4 ‘Tests and demonstration in relevant environment’ in the Horizon Europe project PurPest ‘Plant pest prevention through technology-guided monitoring and site-specific control’; participates in the Norwegian project OOMYCOAST ‘Characterising Oomycetes in Brown Algae along the Norwegian Coast’ funded by Artsdatabanken. TJ is also an expert member of the BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub: A pan-European Nature Restoration Knowledge Hub to strengthen the knowledge base for the implementation of Nature Restoration efforts.

 

Key publications

  • Jung, T., Blaschke, H., Neumann, P. 1996: Isolation, identification and pathogenicity of Phytophthora species from declining oak stands. European Journal of Forest Pathology 26: 253-272. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0329.1996.tb00846.x
  • Jung, T., Cooke, D.E.L., Blaschke, H., Duncan, J.M., Osswald, W. 1999: Phytophthora quercina nov., causing root rot of European oaks. Mycological Research 103: 785-798. DOI: 10.1017/S0953756298007734
  • Jung, T., Blaschke H., Oßwald, W. 2000: Involvement of Phytophthora species in Central European oak decline and the effect of site factors on the disease. Plant Pathology 49: 706-718. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3059.2000.00521.x
  • Jung T., Blaschke M. 2004: Phytophthora root and collar rot of alders in Bavaria: distribution, modes of spread, and possible management strategies. Plant Pathology 53: 197-208. DOI: 10.1111/j.0032-0862.2004.00957.x
  • Brasier, C.M., Kirk, S.A., Delcan, J., Cooke, D.E.L., Jung, T., Man in’t Veld, W.A. 2004: Phytophthora alni nov. and its variants: designation of emerging heteroploid hybrid pathogens spreading on Alnus trees. Mycological Research 108: 1172-1184. DOI: 10.1017/S0953756204001005
  • Jung T. 2009: Beech decline in Central Europe driven by the interaction between Phytophthora infections and climatic extremes. Forest Pathology 39: 73-94. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0329.2008.00566.x
  • Jung, T., Burgess T.I. 2009: Re-evaluation of Phytophthora citricola isolates from multiple woody hosts in Europe and North America reveals a new species, Phytophthora plurivora nov. Persoonia 22: 95-110. DOI: 10.3767/003158509X442612
  • Jung T., Stukely M.J.C., Hardy G.E.St.J., White D., Paap T., Dunstan W.A., Burgess, T.I. 2011: Multiple new Phytophthora species from ITS Clade 6 associated with natural ecosystems in Australia: evolutionary and ecological implications. Persoonia 26: 13-39. DOI: 10.3767/003158511X557577
  • Rea, A.J., Burgess, T.I., Hardy, G.E.St.J., Stukely, M.J.C., Jung, T. 2011: Two novel and potentially endemic species of Phytophthora associated with episodic dieback of kwongan vegetation in the south-west of Western Australia. Plant Pathology 60: 1055-1068. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3059.2011.02463.x
  • Santini, A., Ghelardini, L., De Pace, C., Desprez-Loustau, M.L., Capretti, P., Chandelier, A., Cech, T., Chira, D., Diamandis, S., Gaitniekis, T., Hantula, J., Holdenrieder, O., Jankovsky, L., Jung, T., Jurc, D., Kirisits, T., Kunca, A., Lygis, V., Malecka, M., Marcais, B., Schmitz, S., Schumacher, J., Solheim, H., Solla, A., Szabò, I., Tsopelas, P., Vannini, A., Vettraino, A.M., Woodward, S., Webber, J., Stenlid, J. 2013: Biogeographic patterns and determinants of invasion by alien forest pathogens in Europe. New Phytologist 197: 238-250. DOI: 0.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04364.x
  • Jung, T., Colquhoun, I.J., Hardy, G.E.S.t.J. 2013: New insights into the survival strategy of the invasive soilborne pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi in different natural ecosystems in Western Australia. Forest Pathology 43: 266-288. DOI: 10.1111/efp.12025
  • Jung, T., Orlikowski, L., Henricot, B., et al. 2016: Widespread Phytophthora infestations in European nurseries put forest, semi-natural and horticultural ecosystems at high risk of Phytophthora diseases. Forest Pathology 46: 134–163. DOI: 10.1111/efp.12239
  • Jung, T., Chang, T.-T., Bakonyi, J., Seress, D., Pérez-Sierra, A., Yang, X., Hong, C., Scanu, B., Fu, C.H., Hsueh, K.-L, Maia, C., Abad-Campos, P., Léon, M. , Horta Jung, M. 2017: Diversity of Phytophthora species in natural ecosystems of Taiwan and association with disease symptoms. Plant Pathology 66: 194-211. DOI: 10.1111/ppa.12564
  • Jung, T., Horta Jung, M., Scanu, B., Seress, D., Kovács, D.M., Maia, C., Pérez-Sierra, A., Chang, T.-T., Chandelier, A., Heungens, A., van Poucke, K., Abad-Campos, P., Léon, M., Cacciola, S.O., Bakonyi, J. 2017: Six new Phytophthora species from ITS Clade 7a including two sexually functional heterothallic hybrid species detected in natural ecosystems in Taiwan. Persoonia 38: 100-135. DOI: 3767/003158517X693615
  • Jung, T., Horta Jung, M., Cacciola, S.O., Cech, T., Bakonyi, J., Seress, D., Mosca, S., Schena, L., Seddaiu, S., Pane, A., Magnano di San Lio, G., Maia, C., Cravador, C., Franceschini, A., Scanu, B. 2017: Multiple new cryptic pathogenic Phytophthora species from Fagaceae forests in Austria, Italy and Portugal. IMA Fungus 8 (2): 219-244. DOI: 10.5598/imafungus.2017.08.02.02
  • Jung, T., Pérez–Sierra, A., Durán, A., Horta Jung, , Balci, Y., Scanu, B. 2018: Canker and decline diseases caused by soil- and airborne Phytophthora species in forests and woodlands. Persoonia 40: 182-220. DOI: 10.3767/persoonia.2018.40.08
  • Jung, T., Durán, A., Sanfuentes von Stowasser, E., Schena, L., Mosca, S., Fajardo, S., González, M., Navarro Ortega, A. D., Bakonyi, J., Seress, D., Tomšovský, M., Cravador, A., Maia, C., Horta Jung, M. 2018: Diversity of Phytophthora species in Valdivian rainforests and association with severe dieback symptoms. Forest Pathology 48: e12443. DOI: 10.1111/efp.12443
  • Jung, T., Scanu, B., Brasier, C.M., Webber, J., Milenković, I., Corcobado, T., Tomšovský, T., Pánek, M., Bakonyi, J., Maia, C., Bačová, A., Raco, M., Rees, H., Pérez-Sierra, A., Horta Jung, M. 2020: A survey in natural forest ecosystems of Vietnam reveals high diversity of both new and described Phytophthora taxa including ramorum. Forests 11: 93. DOI: 10.3390/f11010093
  • Jung, T., Horta Jung, M., Webber, J.F., Kageyama, K., Hieno, A., Masuya, H., Uematsu, S., Pérez-Sierra, A., Harris, A.R., Forster, J., Rees, H., Scanu, B., Patra, S., Kudláček, T., Janoušek, J., Corcobado, T., Milenković, I., Nagy, Z., Csorba, I., Bakonyi, J., Brasier, C.M. 2021: The destructive tree pathogen Phytophthora ramorum originates from the Laurosilva forests of East Asia. Journal of Fungi 7: 226. DOI: 3390/jof7030226
  • Van Poucke, K., Haegeman, A., Goedefroit, T., Focquet, F., Leus, L., Horta Jung, M., Nave, C., Redondo, M.A., Husson, C., Kostov, K., Lyubenova, A., Christova, P., Chandelier, A., Slavov, S., De Cock, A., Bonants, P., Werres, S., Oliva Palau, J., Marçais, B., Jung, T., Stenlid, J., Ruttink, T., Heungens, K. 2021: Unravelling hybridization in Phytophthora using phylogenomics and genome size estimation. IMA Fungus 12: 16. DOI: 10.1186/s43008-021-00068-w
  • Shakya, S.K., Grünwald, N.J., Fieland, V.J., Knaus, B.J., Weiland, J.E., Maia, C., Drenth, A., Guest, D.I., Liew, E.C., Crane, C., Chang, T.-T., Fu, C.-H., Minh Chi, N., Quang Thu, P., Scanu, B., Sanfuentes von Stowasser, E., Durán, Á., Horta Jung, M., Jung, T. 2021: Phylogeography of the wide-host range panglobal plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi. Molecular Ecology, 30: 5164–5178. DOI: 10.1111/mec.16109
  • Scanu, B., Jung, T., Masigol, H., Linaldeddu, B.T., Horta Jung, M., Brandano, A., Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa, R., Janoušek, J., Riolo, M., Cacciola S.O. 2021: Phytophthora heterospora nov., a new pseudoconidia-producing sister species of P. palmivora. Journal of Fungi 7: 870. DOI: 10.3390/jof7100870
  • Maia, C., Horta Jung, M., Carella, G., Milenković, I., Janoušek, J., Tomšovský, M., Mosca, S., Schena, L., Cravador, A., Moricca, S., Jung, T. 2022: Eight new Halophytophthora species from marine and brackish-water ecosystems in Portugal and an updated phylogeny for the genus. Persoonia 48: 54–90. DOI: 10.3767/persoonia.2022.48.02
  • Chen, Q., Bakhshi, M., Balci, Y., Broders, K.D., Cheewangkoon, R., Chen, S.F., Fan, X.L., Gramaje, D., Halleen, F., Horta Jung, M., Jiang, N., Jung, T., Májek, T., Marincowitz, S., Milenković, T., Mostert, L., Nakashima, C., Nurul Faziha, I., Pan, M., Raza, M., Scanu, B., Spies, C.F.J., Suhaizan, L., Suzuki, H., Tian, C.M., Tomšovský, M., Úrbez-Torres, J.R., Wang, W., Wingfield, B.D., Wingfield, M.J., Yang, Q., Yang, X., Zare, R., Zhao, P., Groenewald, J.Z., Cai, L., Crous, P.W. 2022: Genera of phytopathogenic fungi: GOPHY 4. Studies in Mycology 101: 417-564. DOI: 10.3114/sim.2022.101.06
  • Brasier, C., Scanu, B., Cooke, D., Jung, T. 2022: Phytophthora: an ancient, historic, biologically and structurally cohesive and evolutionarily successful generic concept in need of preservation. IMA Fungus 13: 12. DOI: 10.1186/s43008-022-00097-z
  • Jung, T., Milenković, I., Corcobado, T., Májek, T., Janoušek, J., Kudláček, T., Tomšovský, M., Nagy, Z., Durán, A., Tarigan, M., Sanfuentes von Stowasser, E., Singh, R., Ferreira, M., Webber, J., Scanu, B., Chi, N.M., Thu, P.Q., Junaid, M., Rosmana, A., Baharuddin, B., Kuswinanti, T., Nasri, N., Kageyama, K., Hieno, A., Masuya, H., Uematsu, S., Oliva, J., Redondo, M., Maia, C., Matsiakh, I., Kramarets, V., O’Hanlon, R., Tomić, Ž., Brasier, C., Horta Jung, M. 2022: Extensive morphological and behavioural diversity among fourteen new and seven described species in Phytophthora Clade 10 and its evolutionary implications. Persoonia 49:1-57. DOI: 10.3767/persoonia.2022.49.01
  • Jung, T., Balci, Y., Broders, K.D., Milenković, I., Janoušek, J., Kudláček, T., Đorđević, B., Horta Jung, M. 2023: Synchrospora nov., a new Peronosporaceae genus with aerial lifestyle from a natural cloud forest in Panama. Journal of Fungi 9: 517. DOI: 10.3390/jof9050517
  • Mullett, M.S., Van Poucke, K., Haegeman, A., Focquet, F., Cauldron, N.C., Knaus, B.J., Horta Jung, M. Kageyama, K., Hieno, A., Masuja, H., Uematsu, S., Webber, J.F., Brasier, C.M., J. Bakonyi, J., Heungens, K., Grünwald, N.J., Jung, T. 2023: Phylogeography and population structure of the global, wide host-range hybrid pathogen Phytophthora ×cambivora. IMA Fungus 14: 4. DOI:10.1186/s43008-023-00109-6
  • Corcobado, T., Cech, T.L., Daxer, A., Ďatková, H., Janoušek, J., Patra, S., Jahn, D., Hüttler, C., Milenković, I., Tomšovský, M., Horta Jung, M., Jung, T. 2023: Phytophthora, Nothophytophthora and Halophytophthora diversity in rivers, streams and riparian alder ecosystems of Central Europe. Mycological Progress 22: 50. DOI: 10.1007/s11557-023-01898-1
  • Caballol, M., Redondo, M. Á., Catalán, N., Corcobado, T., Jung, T., Marçais, B., Milenković, I., Nemesio-Gorriz, M., Stenlid, J., Oliva, J. 2024: Climate acts as an environmental filter to plant pathogens. The ISME Journal 18: wrae010. DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrae010
  • Jung, T., Milenković, I., Balci, Y., Janoušek, J., Kudláček, T., Nagy, Z.Á., Baharuddin, B., Bakonyi, J., Broders, KD., Cacciola, S.O., Chang, T.-T., Chi, N.M., Corcobado, T., Cravador, A., Đorđević, B., Durán, A., Ferreira, M., Fu, C.-H., Garcia, L., Hieno, A., Ho, H.-H., Hong, C., Junaid, M., Kageyama, K., Kuswinanti, T., Maia, C., Májek, T., Masuya, H., Magnano di San Lio, G., Mendieta-Araica, B., Nasri, N., Oliveira, L.S.S., Pane, A., Pérez-Sierra, A., Rosmana, A., Sanfuentes von Stowasser, E., Scanu, B., Singh, R., Stanivuković, Z., Tarigan, M., Thu, P.Q., Tomić, Z., Tomšovský, M., Uematsu, S., Webber, J.F., Zeng, H.-C., Zheng, F.-C., Brasier, C.M., Horta Jung, M. 2024: Worldwide forest surveys reveal forty-three new species in Phytophthora major Clade 2 with fundamental implications for the evolution and biogeography of the genus and global plant biosecurity. Studies in Mycology 107: 251–388. DOI: 10.3114/sim.2024.107.04
  • Mullett, M.S., Harris, A.R., Scanu, B., Van Poucke, K., LeBoldus, J., Stamm, E., Bourret, T.B., Christova, P.K., Oliva, J., Redondo, M.A., Talgø, V., Corcobado, T., Milenković, I., Horta Jung, M., Webber, J., Heungens, K., Jung, T. 2024: Phylogeography, origin and population structure of the self-fertile emerging plant pathogen Phytophthora pseudosyringae. Molecular Plant Pathology 25: e13450. DOI: 10.1111/mpp.13450
  • Gomes Marques, I., Vieites-Blanco, C., Rodríguez-González, P., Segurado, P., Marques, M., Barrento, M.J., Fernandes, M.R., Cupertino, A., Almeida, H., Biurrun, I., Corcobado, T., Costa e Silva, F., Díez, J.J., Dufour, S., Faria, C., Ferreira, M.T., Ferreira, V., Jansson, R., Machado, H., Marçais, B., Moreira, A.C., Oliva, J., Pielech, R., Rodrigues, A.P., Soares David, T., Solla, A., Jung, T. 2024: The ADnet Bayesian belief network for alder decline: Integrating empirical data and expert knowledge. Science of the Total Environment 947: 173619. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173619
  • Bačova, A., Cooke, D.E.L., Milenković, I., Májek, T., Nagy, Z.A., Corcobado, T., Randall, E., Keillor, B., Cock, P.J.A., Horta Jung, M., Jung, T., Tomšovský, M. 2024: Hidden Phytophthora diversity unveiled in tree nurseries of the Czech Republic with traditional and metabarcoding techniques. European Journal of Plant Pathology 170: 131–156. DOI: 10.1007/s10658-024-02886-1
  • Brasier, C.M., Grünwald, N.J., Bourret, T.B., Govers, F., Scanu, B., Cooke, D.E.L., Bose, T., Hawksworth, D.L., Abad, Z.G., Albarracin, M.W., Alsultan, W., Altamirano-Junqueira, A.E., Arifin, A.R., Arnet, M.J., Aumentado, H.D.R., Bakonyi, J., Belisle, W.H., Benigno, A., Bienapfl, J.C., Bilodeau, G.J., Blair, J.E., Botella, L., Brandano, A., Cacciola, S.O., Carbone, I., Castroagudin, V.L., Chaendaekattu, N., Consford, J.D., Corcobado, T., Covey, P.A., Daniels, H.A., Deidda, A., Dorrance, A.E., Dort, E.N., Drenth, A., Drizou, F., Evangelisti, E., Fajardo, S.N., Fang, Y., Ference, C.M., Frankel, S.J., Goss, E.M., Guest, D.I., Hardy, G.E.St.J., Harris, A.R.H., Hawku, M.D., Heungens, K., Hong, C., Horner, I.J., Horta Jung, M., Iyanda, O.J., Jamieson, B.-A., Jeffers, S.N., Judelson, H.S., Junaid, M., Kalogeropoulou, E., Kamoun, S., Kang, S., Kasuga, T., Kudláček, T., LeBoldus, J., Lee, C.A., Li, D.W., Llanos, A.K., Lopez-Nicora, H.D., Machado, H., Maia, C., Mandal, K., Manosalva, P., Martin, F.N., Matson, M.E.H.,. McDougal, R.L., McDowell, J.M., Michelmore, R.W., Milenković, I., Moricca, S., Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa, R., Nagy, Z.Á., Nikolaeva, E.V., Ortega-López, P., Paap, T., Parada-Rojas, C.H., Peduto Hand, F., Pérez-Sierra, A., Pettersson, M., Prasad, P., Puig, A.S., Raco, M., Rajput, N.A., Ristaino, J.B., Rooney-Latham, S., Seidl, M.F., Shamoun, S.F, Solla, A., Spies, C.F.J., Sudermann, M.A., Swiecki, T.J., Tian, M., Tripathy, S., Uematsu, S., Van Poucke, K., Vichou, A.E., Walter, M., Webber, J.F., Williams, N.M., Wingfield, M.J., Yadav, D., Yang, X., Jung, T. 2025: Preserving the biologically coherent generic concept of Phytophthora, ‘Plant Destroyer’. Phytopathology 115: 573–586. DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-11-24-0372-LE
  • Botella, L., Hejna, O., Kudláček, T., Kovačiková, K., Rost, M., Forgia, M., Raco, M., Milenković, I., Corcobado, T., Maia, C., Scanu, B., Drenth, A., Guest, D.I., Liew, E.C.Y., Chi, N.M., Thu, P.Q., Chang, T.-T., Fu, C.-H., Kageyama, K., Hieno, A., Masuja, H., Uematsu, S., Durán, A., Tarigan, M., Junaid, M., Nasri, N., Sanfuentes, E., Čurn, V., Webber, J.F., Brasier, C.M., Horta Jung, M., Jung, T. 2025: The virome of the panglobal, wide host-range plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi: Phylogeography and evolutionary insights. Virus Evolution 11(1): veaf020. DOI: 10.1093/ve/veaf020
  • Horta Jung, M., Maia, C., Mora-Sala, B., Abad-Campos, P., Schena, L., Mosca, S., Carella, G., Moricca, S., Nechwatal, J., Dionísio, L., Cravador, A., Jung, T. 2025: High diversity of Phytophthora species in natural ecosystems and nurseries of Portugal: Detrimental side effect of plant introductions from the age of discovery to modern globalization. Plant Pathology 74: 330–362. DOI: 10.1111/ppa.14022
  • Kartakis, S., Jung, T., Kriticos, D.J., Wesseler, J. 2026: Modeling disease expression of Phytophthora ramorum to estimate potential economic impacts in European forests. Forest Ecology and Management 601: 123367. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123367

 

Relevant projects.

  • 1998–2001: R&D project PATHOAK, ‘FAIR CT97 3926’ ‘Long term dynamics of oak ecosystems: Assessment of the role of root pathogens and environmental constraints as interacting decline inducing factors’. Funded by the European Commission.
  • 2001–2004: R&D project F45 II ‘Development of a management concept for the Phytophthora disease of alders in Bavaria’. In this project TJ coordinated and realised Phytophthora surveys in more than 3200 forest stands and in riparian stands along 20000 kilometres of rivers. Funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry, Munich, Germany.
  • 2013–2014: Exploratory project QuerResist ‘Screening of Asian oak species for potential resistance to Phytophthora’ (EXPL/AGR-FOR/1304/2012). Funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
  • 2014–2016: R&D project RESIPATH: Responses of European Forests and Society to Invasive Pathogens. Funded by FCT in the frame of the BiodivERsA programme.
  • 2015–2019: Horizon 2020 project POnTE ‘Pest Organisms Threatening Europe’. Funded by the European Commission.
  • 2016–2023: Phytophthora Research Centre – Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic. (Project registration no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000453; Project Reference no. MSMT-15932/2016-1. Head Scientific Researcher. Co-funded by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic and the European Regional Development Fund.
  • 2022–2025:BiodivERsA project RESTORESEAS: Marine forests of animals, plants and algae: nature-based tools to protect and restore biodiversity. Coordinator of Task 1.5 ‘Diversity and role of pathogens in restoration’ and PI of the team of Mendel University in Brno. Funded by TACR.
  • 2023–2026: Horizon Europe project PurPest: Plant pest prevention through technology-guided monitoring and site-specific control. Funded by the European Commission.

 

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