Mohammadreza Rezapanah, Center of Excellence for Organic Agriculture, Iran
Mohammadreza Rezapanah is the founder and director of the Center of Excellence for Organic Agriculture (CEOA), an approved consortium of universities and research institutes by the Ministry of Science since 2012.
Since 1998, he works as a researcher at the Biological Control Research Department and is a scientific board member of the Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (IRIPP). For ten years, he was head of this department.
He is an insect pathologist with a key interest in Baculoviruses, as well as the practical use of biological control agents, especially in organic agriculture. Besides his involvement in the National Research Committee of the Pesticide-use Reduction Plan, the National Organic Comittee, and related national Iranian Associations. He is editor of the national organic program. Furthermore, he served the International Organization of Biological Control (IOBC/WPRS) as an auditing committee member for a decade (2001 to 2011). Since 2007, he is teaching Master courses on organic agriculture, as a professor at the universities of Arak and Karaj, Iran.
He has more than 150 publications including 30 peer-reviewed articles.