Dr. Fernanda Krupek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University (OSU). She obtained her B.S. (Agronomy) from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (2016), M.S. degree (Horticultural Sciences) from the University of Florida (2019), and Ph.D. degree in Crop Physiology and Production at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2023). In her role at OSU, Dr. Krupek serves as the state extension specialist in urban food systems and provides leadership for the Urban Food Innovations Team with an applied research and extension program focused on horticultural food production systems in urban and urbanizing environments and communities in the Midwest-Great Lakes region.
Her research efforts are integrated with extension programming to provide data on scale-appropriate systems to urban food systems practitioners in both open-field and protected environments. Fernanda’s teaching efforts include advancing workforce development needs in protected agriculture as well as developing approaches and hands-on training aimed at promoting student success and increasing enrollment, specially from urban and suburban populations, which is a major focus area of our department and college.