Team

Über uns

Stefan Griesser

Owner and founder of Varietas AG.
He started his first company in 1996 and
and offers plant breeding services under the brand of Varietas since 2009.
Stefan grew up as the son of a farmer and a professional gardener and has been breeding plants for over 20 years. He is an expert in special and marginalized crops as well as forest gardens and other permaculture practices.
By trade, he is an evolutionary and population biologist with experience in marker assisted plant breeding and (epidemiological) modelling. He started studying biology, went over to agronomy and finished a Masters in environmental sciences at the ETH in Zurich.
He did his bachelor thesis work on soft and hard species borders in wild tomatoes, crossing and breeding them.
A paper he contributed to in that line of work can be found here.
His master thesis investigated regenerative agricultural practices. To this end he mapped permaculture and its application all over Switzerland and created a systematic classification of permaculture practises in an agrarian and garden context splitting permaculture into group work found mostly in urban agriculture, planning, implementation, biodiversity, animal husbandry, water-, soil- and energy-use as well as the ethical approaches.
Stefan has a wide interest in breeding and agronomy and is happy to assist in any capacity, alone or with his team, as a consultant, modeller or service provider for your breedings projects in this regard too.
(MSc ETH Environmental Sc.)

Kontakt: stefan@varietas.chcopa

OUR TEAM

Noemi Brom

Breeding & Administration

Noemi is the one that keeps everything going by organizing the whole work and pushing the rest of us!
(MSc ETH Environmental Sc.)

Christoph Schiessl

Field work & Statistics

Christoph did his PhD in math and is an enthusiastic gardener. He likes genetics, MAS, QTL-analysis and plant breeding in general.
(Dr. sc. ETH)

Thomas Griesser

Statistics & Administration

Thomas grew up on a farm and has always been involved there. He did his PhD on climate variability at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich with an additional degree in statistics. He has always been drawn to all things resilient and helps with that here.
(Dr. sc. ETH)

Annafried & Martin Widmer-Kessler

workshops, show garden, guided tours

Annafried and Martin are ProSpecieRara veterans where, among other things, they organise the seed and threshing course. They tirelessly help to save and increase the plant diversity within our team. You can also reach the two for courses at Lunexgarten.

Celine Capelli

Modelling & Statistics

Celine likes to play with numbers and data and therefore takes on the job in the team that has the most to do with it.

 

(MSc ETH Environmental Sc.)

Interns

Miriam Geiser

2019

Richard Gruseck

2020

Celia Bermudez Angulo

2020

andrew jehle

2021

Manuel Schmucki

2022

Annette Maurer

2023

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