Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
ORCID: 0000-0002-3069-3325
Dr. Moussa is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence, working within the Agriculture Cluster of the Environment and Climate Department. He focuses on the transition from theory to practical application. He excels at formalizing research-driven insights into robust, validated operational standards. He holds a Ph.D. in Plant Protection from the State University of Milan, where he investigated the sustainable integrated management of grapevine Bois Noir and its associated insect vectors. He enriched his doctoral research experience with a research visit for eight months at the Julius Kühn Institute, Siebeldingen, Germany. His doctoral work won the best PhD prize in Italy from the Italian association of plant protection (AIPP). He won his first Post-Doctoral competition at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, where he worked with various research topics covering forest molecular entomology and insect vectors of grapevine yellows and their epidemiology. He has a strong background in bioinformatic analysis of high-throughput sequencing of different platforms such as Illumina and PacBio, where he published several research articles in high-impact factor journals. He has several years of teaching experience with bachelor’s and master’s students, where he supervised their lab and academic research work. Prior to joining Eratosthenes, Dr. Moussa worked on the PRIN project (MEPASOL) at the University of Milan, where he contributed to project management, conceptualization, field monitoring, and overall project scientific reporting and dissemination at national and international levels.
Participation in programmes subsidised by the Human Resource Development Authority of Cyprus is subject to the following:
