Eirini Lamprini Daouti

Researcher
Department of Crop Production Ecology 
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

I am the principal investigator on a recently awarded early-career grant from FORMAS (2024-2028), I lead a project aimed at testing the extent to which ecological alternatives to weed control such as weed seed predation can reduce dependence on herbicides. The project is structured around three objectives: 

• To advance our knowledge of the potential of weed diversity and weed seed predation, as ecological alternatives for weed control, to mitigate weed-related yield losses.
• To identify the mechanisms by which weed diversity and weed seed predation interact to reduce species growth rates and associated yield losses.
• To evaluate the acceptance of ecological alternatives to weed control among Swedish farmers

I participate also in the projects:

• DIVERSOW: Increasing crop genetic DIVERSity to close the yield gap in Organic Wheat farming 2024 -2026
• Freshh. Farmer acceptable REstoration of Semi-natural Habitat to limit
  Herbicides (FRESHH) 2022- 2025
  
  

• 2023-2024: Postdoctoral researcher at SLU, Department of Crop Production Ecology. 
• 2022-2023: Postdoctoral researcher at the SLU, Department of Ecology
• 2017-2021: PhD in Biology with specialisation in Ecology at the SLU, Department of Ecology, Uppsala. PhD focus on weed seed predation. 

See Google Scholar for the complete publication list.