Prof. Dr. Uygun Aksoy (Council member 2013-2014)

Uygun Aksoy is a senior lecturer and researcher at Ege University Faculty of Agriculture Department of Horticulture. She is specialized in horticultural crops with a special focus on quality and sun-drying of fruits.

She is lecturing at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (Italy) in the Masters Program on Mediterranean Organic Agriculture. She is one of the founding members, ex-president (1999-2003) and honorary president of Turkish Association on Organic Agricultural Movements. She is also a founding member of IFOAM Mediterranean Group. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Dried Fruit and Nut Council. She served as the Board member of the International Society for Horticultural Science (1998-2006) and convened the Symposium on Organic Horticulture in 2010 during International Horticultural Congress in Lisbon.

Prof. Aksoy has organized various short courses and training programs on organic agriculture and good agricultural practices at national and international levels. Coordinated or took part in research projects funded by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Council, State Planning Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, the European Union and World Bank.

She has more than 200 publications composing of scientific (25 peer-reviewed) articles and book chapters.

Weblinks

• OrgPrints.org: Publications by Uygun Aksoy