Biography

Ritter A. Guimapi works as research scientist in the Division of Biotechnology and plant health, under the department of Pests and Weeds in Forestry, Agriculture and Horticulture. His main area of responsibility includes: Mathematical modeling for plant protection; computer-based simulation of insect pest dynamic and their interaction with their beneficial organisms, for use among other things, in warning services.

Ritter’s academic background consists of a PhD in ecological modelling and computer science, a master's in computer science and a bachelor's in mathematics and computer science. He has extensive experience developing models to understand and predict the risk of the dynamics and invasion of various pests across the African and Asian continents. Furthermore, he has many years of international experience using model to explore the effect of both environmental and climatic factors on the dynamics of agroecological processes in relation to plant protection, and to optimize the timing of field implementation of environmentally friendly pest control solutions. Many of these models are integrated into Decision Support System like VIPS (Varsling Innen PlanteSkadegøjøre: https://www.vips-landbruk.no/ ) and are in use to help address pest (insects and plants) management challenges for the wellbeing of smallholder farmers.

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