My name is Tobias Eisert and I am a Master student in Agroecology in my final year. I started with a Bachelor’s degree in Organic Agricultural Sciences and now I am enrolled in EUR-Organic, a double degree Master between the University of Life Science (BOKU) in Vienna, Austria and the High Agronomic School (ISARA) in Lyon, France.
During my ERASMUS stay in Uppsala within my Bachelor’s I had the opportunity to discover the world of Black Soldier Fly (BSF) composting as an intern in the BSF group at SLU. Last year looking for a Master thesis brought me back to Uppsala and the research related to BSF composting.
During my stay here from February to May – the time of the experiments – I want to investigate potential improvements through a fungal pre-treatment for very wet waste streams – specifically vegetables. To use this waste later for BSF composting as a substrates. I am glad that I got this opportunity working together with Dr. Cecilia Lalander and Viktoria Wiklicky during this time and also afterwards during the writing process of the Master thesis.
