Ioan Zagrai

 

Ioan Zagrai

Graduated in Agronomy by the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca (1994), he obtained his PhD degree (2003) in plant breeding investigating “Plum resistance to Plum pox virus and its breeding by conventional methods”, and became senior scientist in 2004. Between 2004-2019 he held the position of head of Research Department of Fruit Research & Development Station Bistrita, Romania, and since January, 2019 he is the director of the same institution. His fields of research expertise are plant virology, stone fruit breeding, plant certification, and GMO field trials. Along the last two decades he led different research projects in the mentioned fields. Since 2012 he is a full member of Romanian Biosafety Commission. In December 2022 he became correspondent member of Romanian Academy of Agricultural and Forest Sciences. Presently, he is also the president of Public Research Speciality Crops Approval Association.