Roberta Paradiso is Associate Professor of Horticulture at the Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy)
Her research activity is related to eco-physiology of vegetable and flower crops, soilless cultures (hydrological properties of substrates, nutrient, and water management), greenhouse technologies, sustainable horticulture in open field and greenhouse, nutritional quality of vegetables. The most recent work concerns artificial lighting in greenhouse and growth chamber, with special attention to spectral dependence of photosynthesis and photomorphogenesis and advanced systems based on light emitting diodes (LEDs).
A specific expertise concerns cultivation of higher plants in controlled environment for Bioregenerative Life-Support Systems (BLSSs) in Space. On this topic, she works in research projects funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) and participates to the ESA consortium MELiSSA - Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative (https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Melissa).
She also collaborated in the creation of the Laboratory of Crop research for Space and the design of the Plant Characterization Unit (PCU) funded by ESA at the Department of Agricultural sciences of the University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy), aiming at the characterization of candidate crops for cultivation in BLSSs.
Lugar: Aula 8 Parodi
9.30 – 10.00: Information about the Universtity of Naples Federico II (Italy) and the Department of Agriculture.
10.10 -11.00: Introduction to Space Farming
Cátedra de Horticultura
Departamento de Producción Vegetal
Facultad de Agronomía
Universidad de Buenos Aires