Fast-forward Plant-based Food Symposium 2025

27 May 2025 | Copenhagen , Denmark

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Ivan Paponov

Associate Professor

Department of Food Science, Aarhus University

Aarhus, Denmark

Plant scientist exploring how environment and hormones shape plant growth and secondary metabolites in high-value crops.

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Research and teaching activities in the Department of Food Science encompass the entire food chain from field to fork, as well as the health-promoting properties of foods and food constituents.
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About me

I am a plant scientist at Aarhus University, specializing in plant-environment interactions, with a background in physiology, nutrition, genetics, and bioinformatics. My research focuses on how plants adapt to variable environmental conditions, particularly how hormone signaling regulates growth and the accumulation of secondary metabolites relevant to plant-based food quality. I have worked across diverse projects—from nitrogen use efficiency to hormone cross-talk and biostimulant development—and I’m currently exploring innovative uses of roots in plant-based food production.

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Skills

  • plant physiology
  • plant genetics
  • Hormone signaling
  • nitrogen use efficiency
  • secondary metabolism
  • Molecular Biology
  • stress adaptation
  • controlled environments
  • hydroponics
  • Biostimulant research
  • Root development
  • Functional crop traits
  • Phenotyping
  • Plant-based food systems

Interests

  • Plant-based food innovation
  • Root-based food products
  • Functional food compounds
  • climate-smart agriculture
  • Domestication of new species
  • Controlled environment farming
  • biostimulants
  • Hydroponics/Aeroponics
  • Greenhouse innovation
  • AI-driven climate regulation
  • AI-assisted plant breeding