THE TEAM

Partner responsible for the scientific and operational coordination of ZELDA, leveraging expertise in enzymology and biomass transformation to guide the development and production of ZELDA solutions.

Partner responsible for scaling up the project’s technical components using its flexible platform of unit operations, producing sufficient quantities of materials for downstream testing and validation.

Responsible for efficacy field trials, safety and risk assessments, and identifying regulatory bottlenecks

Partner responsible for developing ZELDA additives from bio-based starting materials through expertise in biomass fractionation, catalysis, green chemistry, and surfactant science.

Partner Responsible for the experimental validation and field efficacy testing of new crop protection formulations in grapevine.

Partner responsible for the assessment of the environmental, social and economic sustainability of ZELDA products and processes.

Partner responsible of developing an onboard drone system that mixes and applies treatments in real time, using AI to target only what’s needed and eliminate waste.

Partner responsible in communication, dissemination, stakeholder engagement and liason with other projects and initiatives.

Partner responsible for the integration of Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design across the project, contributing agronomic field validation, and providing industry data and feedback to guide scale-up, LCA/TEA, and exploitation.