Helena Vitoshkin Ph.D.
Researcher, Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
- The Department of Growth Production and Environmental Systems Engineering
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Biography
Scientific research focuses on AgriTech in indoor farming, solar energy in agriculture, and developing practical, environmentally friendly solutions for increasing local food security
Education
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1991 – 1997
B.Sc.+ M.Sc. in Electro-Acoustic Engineering at Kyiv Polytechnic University
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2003 – 2007
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University
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2007 – 2012
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University
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2013 – 2015
Postdoctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Research Interests
- Controlled Environment Agriculture: experiments and simulations
- Conceptualzing and developing efficient plant production systems and saving energy.
- Investigating properties of greenhouse cover materials
- Combining experiments and models of climate control and light distribution in greenhouses and open fields.
- Multi-level greenhouses, Vertical farming
- Solar energy technologies in greenhouses and open fields: Agrivoltaics
Research Areas
- Fluid dynamics and heat transfer
- models: CFD, DNS, optics, energy performance, crop-modelling
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Vertical farming
- Agrivoltaics