Zerihun Tadele
Zerihun Tadele holds PhD in Botany from the University of Basel, MSc in Agronomy from Haramaya University and BSc from Addis Ababa University. He did his habilitation at the University of Bern in Switzerland. At the present time, he is a Group Leader at the Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern and Adjunct Associate Professor at Addis Ababa University, Institute of Biotechnology. He is also a member of CDE (Center for Development and Environment) at the University of Bern. His current research focuses on tackling major yield limiting factors in tef (Eragrostis tef), a cereal crop extensively cultivated in Ethiopia. His group collaborates with several institutions in Switzerland, Ethiopia and other countries; and implements agronomic, genetic and genomic tools to develop tef cultivars with desirable traits