Farjana Akter

Project Title: Predicting the impact of Irish tillage farms and developing adaptation strategies

Overview: Farjana Akter is based in center for freshwater at DkIT. In her four-year PhD program, Farjana will study how climate change will impact the Irish cereal crop development and production (focusing on winter wheat and spring barley mainly) using different crop growth simulation models and projected climate data from Met Eireann across various sites and seasons in Ireland.

Farjana completed her B.Sc. in Geography and Environmental Studies from University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Besides she holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Groundwater and Global Change – Impacts and Adaptation (GroundwatCH) from three different European Universites (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal; IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands; Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany (2021-2023).

Farjana’s main research interests are crop simulation modelling, climate change in agriculture studies, agronomy,  soil-plant-water interaction, hydrology, and remote sensing

Programme area: Cereal Crops Research

Supervisor: Dr John Spink, Dr Joseph Lynch, Dr Elodie Ruelle

ORCid: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8429-916X  

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farjana-akter

Location: Crops Research Centre, Oak Park

Funding source: Teagasc