Dr. Agr. Felix Frimpong
Senior Research Scientist
Dr. Felix Frimpong is a Crop physiologist and agronomist with the CSIR-Crops Research Institute. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Science from the University of Bonn, Germany and joined the institute after teaching at the CSIR Basic School in 2014. He conducted his doctoral research work at the Helmholtz Centre, Forschungzentrum Jülich, Institute of Biogeosciences 2, Plant Science, Jülich, Germany, on proline mediated drought tolerance of selected barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) introgression lines and characterization of in vivo spike development.
He is an old student of Sunyani Secondary School and holds an M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Resources Management also from the University of Bonn, Germany, after winning the prestigious North Rhine Westphalia scholarship awarded by the state of North Rhine Westphalia in Germany. In addition, he holds a B.Sc. (Natural Resource Management-Agroforestry) degree with distinction from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2009.
Dr. Frimpong is a Deutschland alumnus and a member of the Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology section of the German Botanical Society (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft-DBG), a member of CIM/BEAF, GIZ Advisory Services for Agricultural Research and the American Society of Biology.
Dr. Frimpong has 17 refereed journal articles plus 3 book chapters and 3 handbooks. He has contributed to the release of 14 improved crop varieties of maize and rice in Ghana since 2014. He is a reviewer for many international and local journal publishers, including Elsevier, Taylor and Francis etc.
He is an old student of Sunyani Secondary School and holds an M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Resources Management also from the University of Bonn, Germany, after winning the prestigious North Rhine Westphalia scholarship awarded by the state of North Rhine Westphalia in Germany. In addition, he holds a B.Sc. (Natural Resource Management-Agroforestry) degree with distinction from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2009.
Dr. Frimpong is a Deutschland alumnus and a member of the Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology section of the German Botanical Society (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft-DBG), a member of CIM/BEAF, GIZ Advisory Services for Agricultural Research and the American Society of Biology.
Dr. Frimpong has 17 refereed journal articles plus 3 book chapters and 3 handbooks. He has contributed to the release of 14 improved crop varieties of maize and rice in Ghana since 2014. He is a reviewer for many international and local journal publishers, including Elsevier, Taylor and Francis etc.